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  • Courtyard housing and medinas
     OP - March 02, 2016, 07:10 PM
    Heard someone discussing medinas ( poss auntie beeb) and they stated they were Islamic. I thought I would check, and they are a neolithic invention that are found everywhere in Europe, Asia and Africa!

    Which made me wonder, how do we know medina in the koran refers to a specific place, and not "a city"?

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RySTtVEyIpQC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=coutyard+housing+medinas&source=bl&ots=oSZq-VqOHR&sig=WIkifuU5YaGU1udF-EfZG3rb2aY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBuM6A2aLLAhVLbRQKHcpZBnEQ6AEIKzAC#v=onepage&q=coutyard%20housing%20medinas&f=false
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Courtyard housing and medinas
     Reply #1 - March 02, 2016, 07:32 PM
    And I propose the religiosity of a society is related to how it tends to live, for example in extended family dwellings or in nuclear family dwellings.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Courtyard housing and medinas
     Reply #2 - March 02, 2016, 07:40 PM
    Various islamic tales tell of women going out to relieve themselves and being molested, but my understanding of the courtyard house is you did not go out for those actions. Those types of tale make more sense for nomadic peoples. 

    Has anyone asked what do particular stories tell one about location?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Courtyard housing and medinas
     Reply #3 - April 04, 2016, 06:06 PM
    As medina is such a common term - it is the former capital of Malta for example - has anyone proposed that the Koranic medina tales are entirely fictional?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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