Islam’s beginnings: Mohammed’s early movement was a surprisingly big tent, says historian Fred M. Donner
By Thanassis Cambanis | Sunday, May 2, 2010 | The Boston Globe
“… University of Chicago historian Fred M. Donner wants to provide a similar back story for Islam — a religion which, in the popular imagination, sprang wholly formed from the seventh-century sands of Arabia. Mohammed preached at the juncture of the Roman and Sassanian empires, winning support from Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and various deist polytheists….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/02/islams_beginnings?mode=PF
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