Muhammad and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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OP - March 04, 2013, 06:07 PM

What are your thoughts? Is the account of Muhammad's "revelations" and life consistent with this form of epilepsy? Seems like this was exactly what was going on with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deDrVZfvDbM

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Reply #1 - March 04, 2013, 06:27 PM

yep. Paul/Saul too

OCD is also relevant
Prof. Robert Sapolsky explains it well as far as I am concerned. 6 Part video lecture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctTsnTHk6Uw
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Reply #2 - March 04, 2013, 06:33 PM

I agree. If you can disregard the criticism of the author and all of his issues that manifest themselves in the book, Understanding Muhammad is an interesting read.
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Reply #3 - March 04, 2013, 06:40 PM

Are the discription of these seizures described in the Sira or Hadiths. I've seen this used quite a bit but can't seem to find the original source.
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Reply #4 - March 04, 2013, 08:16 PM

Quote from: e-raja on March 04, 2013, 06:40 PM
Are the discription of these seizures described in the Sira or Hadiths. I've seen this used quite a bit but can't seem to find the original source.

Yes they are. The surprising thing about the hadith themselves is just how much doubt the cast on 'accepted' doctrine.
But I won't rant here

http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=59&translator=1&start=0&number=462#462
Bukhari (Book #59, Hadith #462)
"..but I hoped that Allah's Apostle might have a dream in which Allah would prove my innocence. But, by Allah, before Allah's Apostle left his seat and before any of the household left, the Divine inspiration came to Allah's Apostle. So there overtook him the same hard condition which used to overtake him, (when he used to be inspired Divinely). The sweat was dropping from his body like pearls though it was a wintry day and that was because of the weighty statement which was being revealed to him. When that state of Allah's Apostle was over, he got up smiling,..."

Looks like he collapses, has a dream in which revelation occurs, while sweating... and then gets up.
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