Jay and Hatun comment on the coins in this exhibit.
Posted on 01/23/2020 9:56:21 AM PST by fishtank
" PfanderFilms 26.5K subscribers Earlier in the week Jay and Hatun did a 'livestream' entitled "7th century Coins tell another story of Islam' beginnings".
It was almost 2 hours long, much too long for most people to sit through.
So, Jay decided to record another much shorter video, around 45 minutes long, which went through the stages of the coins evolution, for those who wanted it more 'Quick, Concise, yet Comprehensive' (the 3 C's)."
"One would therefore assume that the earliest 7th century coins, minted during the time of Muhammad, and during the times of the "4 rightly guided caliphs" (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali) would be replete with references to them, along with religious references to Muhammad, Allah, the Qur'an, and perhaps Mecca, even the Shahada...yet, they simply aren't.
In fact, the coins from that century tell us a completely different story.
Amazingly they are almost completely Christian Byzantine coins, replete with images of emperors, and crosses; possibly not surprising since it was the Byzantines who controlled northern Arabia. But these coins were not minted by the Byzantines, but by Arabs, who should have referenced something to do with Islam on their Obverse (front) and Reverse (back) sides. But they simply don't for the first 40 years.
Between 640 AD – 660 AD, the Arab Proxy states use Christian symbols (crosses), suggesting they were Christian!
When we get to the first real "Muslim Caliphate", the Umayyads, inaugurated by the caliph Mu'awiyya, in 661 AD, we find that his coins are all either Christian in nature, or reflect Persian Zoroastrian culture, right up until his death in 680 AD."
Related to your post here:
Secret ‘piggy bank’ of 1,200-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3805740/posts
“It was almost 2 hours long, much too long for most people to sit through.
So, Jay decided to record another much shorter video, around 45 minutes long”
Doh!
Jay and Hatun comment on the coins in this exhibit.
Here’s a 19 minute variation....
Islamic Coins - Responding to your questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPmtJ2um1M0
.......
Or, just read the article Jay posted on the first link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxhxbuGmbM
They’re almost certainly PhD academic types. No communication is done in a concise, efficient manner.
ping
Someone needs to tell them that youtube pays them by the view, not by the word.
For later.
Yeah, if the tweet doesn’t fit,
then article or book must quit.
/sarc
“There’s too much readin’ goin’ on out there!”
“Reading comprehension is tough!!”
“The problem with libraries is too many of the
books don’t have pictures!”
“My attention span is only
15 seconds looooo..... SQUIRREL!!”
I don’t need a Gone With The Wind-length video to understand what can be transmitted in a page or two of text. If you do, and have time for it, you be you.
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