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‘It was made to appear to them so’: the crucifixion, Jews and Sasanian war propaganda in the Qur’ān

Juan R. I. Cole
- 29 Mar 2021 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 3, pp 404-422
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The quranic sūra The Women 4:157-58 says that Jews claimed to have killed and crucified Christ but denied that they did so Rather, the verse says, ‘it was made to appear to them so' For centuries
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Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

TL;DR: The decline and fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran, Parvaneh Pourshariati, London: I. B. Tauris, 2008, reprinted 2009, ISBN 13-978-1845116453,...
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Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare

Khodadad Rezakhani
- 10 Apr 2013 - 
TL;DR: Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (Veroefentlichungen zur Iranistik, Nr. 61) as discussed by the authors.
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The failure of a Jewish program of public satire in the squares of Medina

Reuven Firestone
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: Muhammad a t-il perdu la guerre qui l'opposedait aux Juifs? Oui, pour une partie car son image ainsi que celle de l'islam parmi les Juif's de Medina etait particulierement negative as discussed by the authors.
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Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires

TL;DR: Muhammad, for Juan Cole, was a "prophet of peace" and this new biography paints an image that is "180 degrees away from that in Western polemics for the past nearly millennium and a half and diffe...
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Christian monasticism on the eve of Islam: Kilwa (Saudi Arabia) — new evidence

TL;DR: A re-examination of Arabic inscriptions engraved on the lintel of a cell has enabled to decipher a text containing the name of the community that originally lived in Kilwa, providing us with details of their origins as discussed by the authors.
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