HISTORICAL RESEARCHES INTO THE QURAN AND THE BIRTH OF ISLAM

This talk from Clio gives detailed attestation to the ongoing Commentary on the Quran by the lecturer, who explains his 10 year project (now nearing completion). Using evidence from the latest historical, archaeological, linguistic, philosophical and theological studies, he has reconstructed the chronological history of the Quran and is attempting to use transpersonal psycho-history to explain the innermost meaning of the different Surahs, verse by verse. He concentrates in this talk on the first part of Surah 30, Ar Rum, and sets its provenance against the dramatic war going on between the Roman Byzantine Empire and the Persian Sassanids. Syria, Jerusalem and Egypt had all been conquered by Persia when Emperor Heraclius launched an ultimately successful counter-attack and recaptured the lost provinces/ All this was taking place against he unfolding transmission of the various Surahs of the Quran. Prior that that, from 595-610, Muhammad had been a successful wandering merchant and trader who had traveled far