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[quote=Anonymous]The jahaliyya did not exist.  It is simply an historical construct, In this case one made by early Islamic historians. No one living in the jahaliyya knew they were living in it any more than anyone living in the antebellum South knew they were living in it.

Western historians tend not to use jahaliyya to describe that period of time; rather they tend to use terms like pre-ISlamic Arabia, which, unlike jahaliyya is a neutral descriptor of the period.

Early Islamic historians had an interest in glorifying Islam, and one of the ways they did was by denigrating what came before that.

Likewise,  historians infatuated with rationality and science called an era in European history the age of Enlightenment, preceded by the Renaissance and denigrated the period before that, when in fact quite a bit of scholarship and learning took place, as the Dark Ages.

So yes, time existed before Muhammed received his revelations, but that does not mean the jahaliyya actually existed.  Is it the Civil War or the War of Northern Aggression? Victors usually write the history. Doesn't mean it's truth.[/quote]

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