GenerationofSwine
I'm sorry, this isn't really accurate and it takes a lot of things as fact that are still being debated.
And full disclosure, I do feel that Petra and the debate around that shouldn't be taken as such a controversy in academia. The fact is, we don't know. The fact is that, if the same amount of evidence came about with Jesus and Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, it wouldn't have the controversy behind it. it would be debated and investigated as always.
But, for some reason Academia doesn't question the Koran anywhere near as much as it does other texts, and this doesn't question it either.
And, honestly, there is not much history in Mecca. It didn't appear on the map when Muhammad lived, or before. It wasn't on a trade rou...