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I wonder if the Minister of Culture used JSA as their authenticating agent? Can anyone read Farsi? I wonder what the cert says.... probably something like this..."the authenticating agent indicates that in his opinion, it looks to be a real Prophet Muhammad signature, no guarantees it's authentic, but it looks real."
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One problem is that Muhammad was illiterate.
Last edited by drcy; 01-28-2019 at 10:42 PM. |
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That is apparently a matter of some debate.
Not a great source, but there are other letters out there, and at least according to the supposed translation this is among the known ones. The picture shown isn't a match to the fragement shown in the auction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhamm...heads_of_state There is a long scholarly work that would indicate that all these letters were discovered within the last 200 years, and that they are probably old forgeries. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q...mmad-authentic If it is actually a few centuries old, the ink not fading doesn't surprise me. It would have been carbon(Maybe charcoal? ) mixed with some sort of binder. That's been used for millennia, and is still made. http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/disco...-on-indian-ink |
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Hurry this won't last long with it being 8% off from the same Ebay seller => https://www.ebay.com/itm/Taoist-Temp...5G21:rk:1:pf:1
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How I yearn for the good old days of the 7th century. What a great time to be alive!
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I have a masters in philosophy of religion and knew that Muhammad spoke the Koran for others to write down, so I wondered if he could write. I googled and, voila, he couldn't read or write. Perhaps, ala Joe Jackson, his wife signed this for him.
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I read some stuff that had quotes from the Quran that seemed to indicate that he could write. Of course, there well could be a translation difference between "wrote" and "caused to be written". Had to go back and find it https://submission.org/Claim_of_Muha...lliteracy.html From what I've read I believe any claimed letters would be very suspect. The long paper I didn't read basically says they were constructed much later using a group of standard phrases taken from other sources. |
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