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I've been listening to The Rest is History podcast lately, and a lot of this happened in Islam via converts. Tom Holland was saying that many now fundamental I

I've been listening to The Rest is History podcast lately, and a lot of this happened in Islam via converts. Tom Holland was saying that many now fundamental Islamic practices were imported into the faith via converts. For example such as praying 5 times a day was apparently a Zoroastrian practice.

ithkuil 2y ago
The same thing happened to many Cristian practices. The Eucharist may have originated in the cult of Dionysus. Probably also Christmas is also a tradition that bears the roots of a pre-christian festivity that has been merged with / subsumed in Christian tradition