Mueza Mueza, a Muslim commentator pointed out 5 Glaring Mistakes I made concerning the 'Dome of the Rock' video I put up. I've never been SO embarrassed.
1) He believed that I said that Abd al-Malik was the 2nd in the Umayyad line, but I really said that he was the 2nd in the Marwanid line. I also didn’t say that he created Muhammad, in fact I’m not even sure he wasreferring to Muhammad in his inscriptions. The prophet Muhammad we know today came along much later, in the 8th and 9th centuries.
2) Mueza Mueza thought that I believed Abd al-Malik created all 114 Surahs of the Qur'an, but I don't believe that at all. The fact that Muslims still can't even find 96% of the Qur'an by 721 AD, and that the 63 fragments they put forward for that time either haven't been studied, or are dated earlier, or there is mere speculation of their dates.
3) Mueza Mueza is correct in suggesting that the inscriptions on the Dome of the Rock are a reflection of Monophysite Christianity and other 7th century Christian sects debating on the nature of Jesus Christ. What Mueza Mueza forgets to mention is that while these make sense in a late 7th century environment, in that area, the notion that the Dome was built to commemorate Muhammad ascending the 7 heavens (known as the Mi'raj) do not, since there is nothing written about that event on any of those earlier inner ambulatory inscriptions.
4) Mueza Mueza assumed that I didn't know my Arabic scripts, attributing the script used on the inner ambulatory inscriptions to the Thuluth script, which was introduced by the Ottomans in the 15th century. He is correct, the Thuluth script is from the 15th century, but it has curved and oblique lines, unlike the Kufic script used on the inner ambulatories, which has straight and angular lines. He was confusing the outer 1876 AD inscriptions on the Dome, which do use the Thuluth script.
5) Mueza Mueza couldn't believe that the invading Crusaders would permit the inscriptions attacking Jesus Christ to remain in tact on the Dome of the Rock after they invaded in 1099 AD. But he is confusing the way Muslims act with how Christians act. Unlike Muslims, most (not all), Christian conquerors retained in tact what was already there, so that most scholars today believe the inner inscriptions are the original ones.
Therefore, I do believe I have been absolved of all the supposed Mistakes which were attributed to me. Whew!
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