- What if analysis shows that Muhammad's teeth formed somewhere else such as Syria?
There is a clear purpose in testing the Shroud that would be a benefit to all of Christianity. How would the testing that you purpose on Muhammad's body be of benefit to Islam?
See post #21. Anything we find about Muhammad's skeleton that casts doubt on the traditional Islamic historical narrative should be of cardinal importance to Muslims. Even if everything about Muhammad's skeleton is consistent with Islamic beliefs, it would be interesting. ... Plus you never know what you're going to find until you start digging. The real interesting information might be something nobody has thought about yet.
No bud I am not going to see the post no 21 again bc you are not understanding my point. Disturbing someone's grave is disrespect to his memory bc his soul is resting there now. It must have a real crucial importance to dig in someone's grave. Justt because of the possibility of becoming interesting is not an ennough cause to disturb his soul. So no Muslim will permit you to do that just bc you consider it interesting..
According to Wikipedia most assumed that death resulted from a fever, but Muhammad claimed that he had been poisoned. Maybe the death was caused by something else like bone cancer. We won't know until we exhume the skeleton.
Another possibility is that Muhammad poisoned himself by accident. Let's say Muhammad had some illness that he kept private and treated with a cutting-edge medicine for his time.
They may already have put a hit out on you. They get angry when someone draws Muhammad; I'm sure they'd consider this a desecration.
Well, obviously the scientists would get Saudi approval before exhuming the skeletons. I can imagine in 50 years that Muslims might have more Western attitudes and authorize it. IDK
Not necessarily. It might mean that the Islamic historical narrative is fiction. There are a few scholars who think the historic Muhammad was very different - maybe even two separate people - but definitely not the character of Islamic tradition.
Maybe, but for now I think there would be general opposition.
Because Mohammad was not Catholic. Catholics are not generally opposed to science.
I really doubt Muslim archaeologists do lots of exhumation of skeletons. I suppose they would allow it reluctantly for solving crimes.
FWIW, I was wondering about mercury. It seems that mercury might be detectable in the bones or the dirt that was originally flesh. IDK
Just that ancient people considered mercury to have medical benefits. So if Muhammad developed some chronic ailment and called-in the doctors of the time it is possible that their treatments might have slowly poisoned him (especially if they used mercury). The symptom of fever doesn't match mercury poisoning though. Typical symptoms seem to be nerves and brain.
