🕌 The Islamization of History

How a 7th-Century Cult Rewrote the Past to Justify the Present

Subtitle: A follow-up to “When Did Islam Really Start?” — exposing how Islam rewrote not just its origins, but the entire Abrahamic past to legitimize itself.

🔥 Introduction: From Cave to Control

In my previous post, we peeled back the layers of the Islamic origin story — and found something far from divine. The neat narrative of Islam descending in 610 CE, fully formed from heaven, collapses under historical scrutiny. What we found instead was a patchwork of improvisation, political power plays, and theological repurposing.

But what if that was only half the deception?

This time, we’re digging deeper — into how Islam didn’t just invent its present. It retrofitted the entire past to make its claim to truth seem inevitable.

🕋 I. Mecca and the Manufactured Abrahamic Lineage

The Myth of Abraham and the Kaaba

According to the Qur’an (2:127), Abraham and Ishmael built the Kaaba — grounding Islam in patriarchal legitimacy. But:

• No Jewish or Christian source prior to Islam ever links Abraham to Mecca.
• There is zero archaeological or textual evidence for this event.
• Early Islamic historians like al-Azraqi admit pagan rituals dominated Mecca before Muhammad’s reforms.

So why invent this myth? To claim prophetic inheritance and make an obscure trade town into the spiritual capital of a rising empire.

Even converts like Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) admitted:

“There is no historical or archaeological evidence to support the claim that Abraham was ever in Mecca.”

It’s not tradition — it’s theological propaganda.

🔇 II. The Deafening Silence Before Islam’s “Arrival”

If Islam began in 610 CE, why:

• Do no coins, inscriptions, or documents from that era mention Islam, Muslims, or the Quran?
• Do the earliest outside references (like Doctrina Jacobi, 634 CE) only speak of a vague prophet among “the Saracens”?
• Does the Dome of the Rock (691 CE) mention Jesus repeatedly — but not Muhammad once?

Because early Islam, as we know it today, didn’t exist.

Scholars like Dan Gibson, Patricia Crone, and Yehuda Nevo demonstrate that what we now call “Islam” was a post-conquest identity project, formalized decades after Muhammad’s death under the Umayyads.

What emerged wasn’t a preserved faith — it was a new imperial ideology seeking ancient roots.

🧬 III. Islam’s Retroactive Identity Theft

“Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian — he was a Muslim.”
(Qur’an 3:67)

This verse flips history on its head. According to Islam:

• Adam was Muslim.
• Moses was Muslim.
• Jesus? Also Muslim.

All pre-Islamic monotheism is rebranded “Islam” — despite clear, conflicting doctrines.

It’s like claiming Newton, Galileo, and Darwin were actually creationists because they believed in a creator. It’s semantic theft, not continuity.

📜 IV. Hadith: Filling in the Gaps with Fabrication

The Quran is vague. It lacks basic prayer instructions, details on zakat, and even clear theology. That’s where Hadith steps in — written 200+ years later.

Collected by men like Bukhari and Muslim, these traditions:

• Add backstories to revelations
• Clarify contradictions
• Invent “Sunnah” to shape Islamic law

Yet their chains of transmission (isnads) are unverifiable and circular:

“It’s reliable because Bukhari says so — and Bukhari is reliable because he used reliable transmitters.”

That’s faith in feedback loop form.

📚 V. A Scripture That Undermines Itself

Qur’an 5:47 says:

“Let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein…”

But Qur’an 5:13 says:

“They [Jews and Christians] altered the words from their places.”

Which is it?

• If the Torah and Gospel are corrupted, why order believers to follow them?
• If they’re not corrupted, then Islam — which contradicts them — must be false.

This is a self-defeating contradiction. Islam can’t have it both ways — unless you’re allowed to bend logic at will.

🧠 VI. Strategic Doctrinal Evolution, Not Revelation

The “Five Pillars” were not revealed as a set. They evolved:

• Zakat became a mandatory tax only after Muhammad consolidated power.
• Prayer direction was initially toward Jerusalem — changed later to Mecca (Qur’an 2:144).
• Hajj rituals were pagan in origin, later rebranded under tawheed.

Islamic law was not revealed — it was reverse-engineered to retro-justify power structures.

🧨 Conclusion: The Past Was Rewritten to Secure the Present

Islam’s claim to timeless, divine authenticity collapses when we examine:

• The fabricated Abrahamic lineage
• The silence of history
• The theft of prophetic identities
• The contradictions within its own scripture
• And the post-hoc invention of its rituals

This isn’t ancient revelation — it’s imperial revisionism.

Islam, as a system, didn’t just rewrite its founding moment. It rewrote the entire religious landscape to declare itself inevitable, central, and final.

It wasn’t delivered. It was constructed.

📚 Sources:

• Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah
• Al-Tabari, Ta’rikh al-Rusul wa’l-Muluk
• Patricia Crone & Michael Cook, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
• Dan Gibson, Quranic Geography
• Yehuda Nevo, Crossroads to Islam
• Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 6922
• Quran 2:127, 3:67, 5:13, 5:47