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The Quran, the early Islamic period and the questions of the first qibla.

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• Abraham Biblical Figures Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham; originally אַבְרָם Avram; Arabic إبراهيم Ibrāhīm; Greek Ἀβραάμ Abraám) is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the…
• Hanafiyya Theology & Traditions Hanafiyya (Arabic ٱلْحَنِيفِيَّة al-Ḥanīfiyyah, from حَنِيف ḥanīf, 'one inclined away from idolatry toward the upright primordial worship') is the…
• Idolatry Theology & Traditions Idolatry is the polemical category used by biblical, Christian, and Islamic traditions for worship directed toward images, rival powers, or…
• Muhammad Biblical Figures Muhammad ibn Abdullah (Arabic <span class="arabic"مُحَمَّد</span, c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was the Arabian prophet who founded the religious community…
• Nabataeans Peoples & Groups The Nabataeans (Nabataean Aramaic נבטו Nabaṭu; Greek Ναβαταῖοι Nabataîoi; Arabic ٱلْأَنْبَاط al-Anbāṭ) were an ancient North Arabian people who from…
• Petra Places & Locations Petra (Greek Πέτρα 'rock'; Nabataean Aramaic רקמו Raqmū; Hebrew רֶקֶם Reqem; Arabic ٱلْبَتْرَاء al-Batrāʾ) is the rock-cut capital of the Nabataean…
• Prophet Cosmic Roles A prophet (Greek: προφήτης, prophētēs; Hebrew: נָבִיא, navi) is a human figure who, in the religious traditions of the world, serves as a mediator…

Articles 3

• The Forty Chairs 2026-11-01 The Raëlian canon asserts a bounded prophetology — forty-or-so guests at Yahweh's table, 'all beings representative of the religions created…
• Monotheism Is the Wrong Question 2026-07-14 The usual map divides religions into monotheisms, which affirm one immaterial God, and polytheisms, which multiply gods. The ancient sources do not…
• The First Mosques Faced Petra, Not Mecca 2026-07-01 For roughly the first Islamic century, the mosques do not face Mecca. On Dan Gibson's survey of the oldest datable sanctuaries, their qibla walls…

Timeline 1

• Age of Pisces -210 – 1950 The eleventh age of the Great Year — Jesus as alliance project, the fish-and-virgin doubled signature, Islam and the question of Petra, the medieval…

Library 2

• Qur'an — early-manuscript selection Islamic Texts · Wheel of Heaven Translation Program · 2026 Qur'an 21:1–5, 54:1 and 56:15–24, the three passages the Raëlian canon cites, translated from the oldest Hijazi-script manuscripts of the 7th…
• Quran Islamic Texts · Traditional (revelation to Muhammad) Quran — 114 chapters, 6,236 ayat. Part of The Qur'an in Islamic scripture.

Most-cited sources 16

• Early Islamic Qiblas
• Qur’anic Geography
• The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
• Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
• Let the Stones Speak: Archaeology Challenges Islam
• The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
• The History of al-Ṭabarī (Tārīkh al-Rusul wa-l-Mulūk), vols. XXI–XXIII
• Islamic Messianism: The Idea of Mahdi in Twelver Shi’ism