Highly interesting! Both from the method as well as from the presentation with the many illustrations. It is a refreshing approach which is worth being commented in detail.
Dr. Gerd-R. Puin, Germany, author of The hidden origins of Islam : new research into its early history
This remarkable work investigates in great detail the history and evolution of many of the tribes and cultures of Arabia and adjacent lands and their contact and trade with regions as distant as China. Gibson presents new, but well-researched, theories on many historical events which still affect our world today. These range from the development of navigation, overland and maritime trade routes and, perhaps, most controversially, his convincingly argued proposal that Petra was the original Holy City of Islam which was later shifted to Mecca. His careful use of Biblical and Islamic literature, historical and archaeological data, is wonderfully informed by some thirty years of study and travel in the Middle East. With his family, he lived some years among the Bedouin in the desert near Petra, where he got to know the people and the region intimately. This well-presented book is generously illustrated with excellent photos, maps, diagrams and tables, which are of great assistance to following and clarifying the text. ....
John E. Hill, author of Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
Is Petra the Holy City of Islam? Amazing new evidence startles Islamic scholars!
Recent advances in archeology and technology have now allowed historians to better examine the claims of ancient writings. Researcher Dan Gibson recently published some controversial evidence in his book: Qur'anic Geography which challenged previously held opinions of the locations of the "People of 'Ad" mentioned in the Qur'an and also the location of the first Islamic Holy City. Gibson claims this city was the city of Petra located in southern Jordan and it was only during the second Islamic civil war that the Black Stone was moved south into Saudi Arabia to the present location of Mecca. Thus, Muslims today are not praying in the same direction that Muhammad and the first four caliphs instructed the faithful to pray.
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In the West, and in particular in Europe, there is this pervasive popular view that all religions are weak when it comes to proving themselves historically, that people have to 'park their brains at the door' when entering a church or mosque. Christianity has taken this criticism to heart and in the last century has done its homework concerning the historicity of the Bible. On the other hand, Islam has never really been held accountable historically, at least not on a popular level, and so has continued to make exorbitant claims concerning the authenticity of the Qur'an, and of the emergence of Islam in the 7th century, with very little criticism coming either from the secular or sacred worlds. The few people who have chosen to question these claims academically (Drs Crone, Cook, Rippin, and others), have been careful to only publish their findings in esoteric academic journals away from any popular Muslim media, leaving the real battle of getting this material down to the 'common man' to people who see the profit in informing and confronting the notion of the Qur'an's immutability.
Sooner or later, however, Islam will have to answer the same questions concerning its historical credibility that Christians have had to answer (since the 1800s), and it will then be materials like Dan Gibson’s book which will do the greatest damage.