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This project proposes that Islam emerged from the rivalry and occasional treaties in an Association (Quraysh) between Judaizing Arabs of the Palmyrian/Nabatean/Ghassanid area in the West (established in 634AD) and Jew-friendly Gnostics of the Tachkastan/Hatra/Lakhmid area in the East (established 610s-620s) who together defeated the Sassanians in Mesopotamia. Both were regarded as Ishmaelites. On one side of the line, there is displacement theology but on the other side is the Taji acceptance of Jewish tradition and inheritance. At first the Jew-friendly Taji-Mawali component was dominant but they were soon overcome by the Judaizers who became Umayyads. By the time the power pendulum swung back to the Mawali corner they had already accepted Umayyad displacement theology and abandoned Taji attitude towards Jewish tradition. While the dominant group of Mawali and those from the Sassanids and Umayyad "Qara" who capitulated to them united to become the Abbasids, a much smaller remnant of Mawali continued underground with the Jew-friendly Taji mainly settling in the Balkans and Central Asia. At the same time a remnant of the Umayyad Judaizers survived in Spain. This page attempts to comprise a chronology of relevant events which took place during this power struggle resulting in the establishment of the Islamic religion.

Background

The Monophysite-leaning Pahlavi Mawali religion was Gnostic Baptist but the Arabs practiced Ishmaelite-Judaic Hagarism (Tondraki). The standard narrative makes the Arabs Lords over the Mawali. However, in this thesis it is proposed that the Mawali were originally Ali's competing and mainly non-Arab proto-Muslim group whose Monophysite religious materials were eventually redacted and interpreted by Judaizers under the rise of Arabic hegemony to form parts of the Quran. Ali and Salman the Persian were significant leaders of the Mawali while Umar's Ma'amed best represents the Arabs. The word Mawla means Lords (singular Mullah) but the sunni narrative interprets it as Mawlāʾī meaning Lord's. It may derive from the Hebrew term Melewi referring to non Israelites who were grafted into the priestly families. The word Mawlāʾī later became Mevlevi in Turkish. It is suggested that Ali's Mawali may have been the original Lords (Mullahs) over the Arabs but their story was changed to fit with the new hegemony.

Gnostic Baptists (Hanifian Tsabis)

Hanifism is a word used to describe the Messianic religion of certain Gnostic Baptists ("Hanifite" Sabians) of the Fertile Crescent Baptists. They are sometimes referred to as Abrahamists or Hanafite Christians. Maslama bin Habib and his Banu Hanifa played major roles in the movement. These were the so-called "Old Paulicians" from whom originates the ancient original Johannite tradition of Hormuz (Ormus). Falling under the Persian cultural sphere of influence centred on Isfahan, their word for Jesus is Ieso and their word for John is Yahia. These two names are the best evidence that Islam did not have simple Arabic origins.

Notable Gnostic Baptists

Waraqah ibn Nawfal: became an Adoptionist.

Uthman ibn al-Huwayrith: became an Adoptionist.

Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh: became an Adoptionist.

Zayd ibn Amr: rejected both Judaization and Adoptionism.

Maslama bin Habib: leader of the Banu Hanifa, offered to support the Salaf but was rejected.

Abu Qays ibn al-Aslaṭ: opposed the Salaf.

Abū 'Amar 'Abd Amr ibn Sayfī: a leader of the tribe of Banu Aws at Medina (possibly Petra where Uthman's Nabatean-Ghassanid-Umayads were once based) and builder of the "Mosque of the Schism" and later allied with the Quraysh then moved to Ta'if and onto Syria after subsequent early Muslim conquests.

Rogation of the Ninevites

"God told Jonah: Had your Lord so wished, all people everywhere would have been believers. But that is not His way, hence do not force anyone to take to Our path unless they do so willingly. No one can believe except by the will of God; only those who are skeptics do not understand His message."

http://assyrianpost.blogspot.com/2007/01/baoutad-ninevaye-or-rogation-of.html?m=1

Compare with

http://jews-for-allah.org/Why-Believe-in-Allah/Jews-inthe-Quran/jonah.htm

It looks like "Jews for Allah" accidentally used the Nestorian Lection instead of the Islamic one because in Pickthal's translation it reads:

"And if thy Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed together. Wouldst thou (Muhammad) compel men until they are believers. It is not for any soul to believe save by the permission of Allah. He hath set uncleanness upon those who have no sense."

[10:99-100]

If you have ever read a verse in the Quran but have never been able to find it since, it is possible that the Muslim who showed it to you might have accidentally used a Nestorian Lectionary instead.

Apostatian?

Although they simply called themselves "believers", the Gnostic Baptists are best distinguished by their peculiar use of the slur "Hanifian" (Apostatian) to refer to Abraham intending to give hope to Lakhmidians from Apostate (especially Manichean) backgrounds thereby sanitising the insult which was regularly applied to them as Acephali by the Christian Hierarchies which they rejected.

Inscriptions and Poetry

The Gnostic Baptists left plenty of rock inscriptions but most of their doctrine comes from a certain 7th century Persian Charismatic called Gabriel (or Ariel) who according to Aisha was on all but 2 occasions seen in the form of a disciple called Nabi Dihyah Wahi ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi. The Khalifa in question being the Jewish Exilarch Gabirol (son of Haninai) in Pumbedita expelled for adopting belief in Ieso as the Messiah. Gabirol was killed by the last Parsig Emperor Khosrow II.

The accusation that the Quranic materials were being taught by Waraqah emerged, to which the response was that he was Ajami while the materials were in the linguistic style used only by Mubina devotees.

The Hebrew Term MaHmad

The Biblical Mahmad (מחמד) is Israel's "Treasure" mentioned in:

Hosea 9:6, God's Temple (Mahmad) will be overtaken by nettles

Lamentations 1:10, God's Temple (Mahmad) will be trampled by the Gentiles

Isaiah 64:11, God's Temple (Mahmad) is laid waste

Joel 3:5, God's Temple (Mahmad) will be misappropriated by Gentiles

and especially Ezekiel 24:16-25 God will take away Israel's Mahmad (God's Temple).

Christian references to Jesus's appearance as the Temple of God occur in:

John 2:19,

Matt 27:40,

Mark 14:58,

Matt 26:61

and Rev 21:22

In plural form the Hebrew word Mahmad becomes Mahamadim. This plural form refers to a minimum of three rather than just one nor only a plural of two. Mahamadim is Israel's Bridegroom in Song of Solomon 5:16.

Christian references to Jesus's appearance as the Bridegroom occur in Matt 9:15 and Mark 2:19-20.

The Arabic Quran explicitly links AlMasih ibn Marym and Muhammad together when it says: مَّا الْمَسِيحُ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ "No one is the Messiah ibn Marym but Ministry before whom all other ministries have certainly passed." (5:75) and clarifies this elsewhere by saying: مَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ "No one is God's Temple but Ministry before whom all other ministries have certainly passed. So what if that Ministry died or was killed? Are you going to turn back on your heels? Even so, he who turns back on his heels will never harm the divine Father at all; but the divine Father will reward the grateful."(3:144)

Gnostic Baptists believed the Father's name had become flesh as the Messiah Jesus Mary's Son Rasul of the Father's physical Appearance (Divine Temple) which these Baptists called Mahmad (not to be confused with the Arabian Nabi) and so were also referred to as tribes of Mahmad. The term was written Muhmd by Anonymous, Mhmt by Thomas the Presbyter, Mahmet by Sebeos, but just Memed by John of Damascus.

For the Hagarenes this term really only referred to the Temple rather than the appearance of Jesus.

The Quraysh (Association)

Mahmad's Baptists distinguished themselves slightly from those with whom they had a covenant as an Association (Quraysh) who they called Musulman despite regarding them as most prone to hypocrisy and disbelief.

Gnostic Baptists were also called Ansari and associated with the Lakhmidian or Ibadis of Iraq like Khadijah and Waraqah.

It is important to note that neither Bahira, nor Sarjis Ben Saidah, nor Maslamah bin Habib ever dared refer to themselves as Mahmad being a Biblical Hebrew term for God's Temple. Gnostic Baptists believed only the Messiah's Shubiha to mankind can be considered to be "Mahmad" and rejected everyone else who claimed to be a Mahmad after the Messiah's Shubiha to mankind.

Hagarenes

In their Association (Quraysh) the Umayyads can be identified as Judaizers known as Ha-Garim (Hagarenes) under the Spiritual guidance of Kaʽb al-Aḥbār. They opposed ascribing any kind of uncommon divinity to Allah's Rasul. The Baptists called them Judases and regarded them as potential traitors.

Their beliefs are very similar to the Tondrakians.

Babylonian Aramaic Ma'amad or Mahamad

Ma'amad (מַעֲמָד meaning support/status/class/position) a type of Jewish leadership described in the Talmud.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10222-ma-amad

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ma-amad-or-mahamad

The descriptions provided by John of Nikiu, Sebeos and especially the exact spelling used by John of Damascus are consistent with this meaning.

The policy of the ma'amad tended to be conservative and authoritarian in the extreme. On completion of its term of office the ma'amad itself appointed its successors (Khalifat).

Kaʽb al-Aḥbār certainly represents at least one of the probably 7 heads of the Mahamad. The current London Mahamad has 5 heads.

Targum Musalamai

Concerning the term "Muslim" which means "submitter", it should be noted that in the Torah, everywhere the word "Kenite" is used, it is translated to Aramaic by Onkelos as Salamai or Muslamai or Musalamai. Some suggest this refers to the great numbers of non-Jewish believers who came to sacrifice the Qurban Shlamim in Jerusalem together with the Jews indicating an origin as Judaizers from Herodian Times.

Mishna

This could explain how some of the Mishna entered into the Quranic materials such as for example reference to the seven Mesani meaning the Sheva Mitzvot of Noah: Surat Al-Hijr 15.87 "And We have bestowed upon thee the Sheva Mitzvot and the Grand Qur'an." Surat Az-Zumar 39.23 "Allah has revealed the most beautiful Message in the form of a Book, consistent with the Sheva Mitzvot."

This is what the Mishna refers to as the religion of Noah which is confirmed in Surat Ash-Shura 42.13, "He has laid down the same religion for you as He enjoined on Noah: that which We have revealed to you and which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus: 'Establish the religion and do not make divisions in it.' What you call the associators to follow is very hard for them. Allah chooses for Himself anyone He wills and guides to Himself those who turn to Him."

Noahism

It should be emphasised that the religion of the Muslims was therefore Noahism not Hanifism. But the Believers and the Noahites were united for a while in their struggle to carve out an empire and then later they merged to form a new religious community.

Hanifism and Hagarism merge as Islam

Prelude

The Baptists considered the closest to themselves in their Association (Quraysh) to be the Nestorians (who say Allah's Rasul is a partnership between the divine and its creation) but did not take them as allies. The Baptists referred to any Church which established a communion with Dyophysites as Nestorian. Hagarenes in contrast have always appeared closer to Jews.

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