Hey there,
I have read those testimonies ,but can we judge them as trustworthy piece of evidence?
Take this for example :
And they were saying that the prophet had appeared, coming with the Saracens, and that he was proclaiming the advent of the anointed one, the Christ who was to come.Does that apply to Mohammed and Islam as we know it today ?
We can say that someone is claiming to be a prophet and to claim to be a prophet was very common in that troubled area ,what else any agitator can claim?
Making that stuff up from scratch would not have turned out the way it did.
why not ?
Why not?
We have Moses, Solomon, David and Jesus .
And we have also God.
Humans create all kinds of imaginary agents .
A problem with Mohammad is that the name means Praiseworthy. It is not only a common name, but it is a title/description of anyone who accomplishes anything or is of good character. There were quite a few military and religious leaders called praiseworthy or named Praiseworthy.
The name was not common .
And if you read Yehuda D. Nevo brillanat book Crossroads to Islam you can see why .
can any one of read Arabic?