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In same sense The Quran. Found really cool over the meal type of documentary style video introduction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2cEIDZwG5M https://www

• inawarminister 5y ago
  Even secularly, I need to agree. The Bible was swallowed by Roman Empire and tied to Roman greatness for the next half century, maybe millenium. The Qur'an made its own greatness, from heretofore a marginal people, who by their own admissions feared the Persians like falcons fear eagles ('O, lo, the Persians, whose destiny is millennia of greatness. Even when they fell, they reclaimed their imperiality' - paraphrased from pre-Islamic Arab poems) and Rome. (Though I don't find many Arabic poems of Rome, unlike Germanic epic poems about the Roman dragon, even if they hide it sometimes. Siegfried was likely mythical version of Arminius)
  • lifeplusplus 5y ago
    I vaguely remember reading some Islamic stuff and Rome was what you would think is USA in terms of power and you live in Afghanistan. Just impossibly out of reach.