DNM - مَعْرَكَة مُؤْتَة - Battle of Mu'tah

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 18, 2021 at 12:58

DNM; a Wikipedia citation for your review and interpretation:
[The Battle of Mu'tah (: مَعْرَكَة مُؤْتَة‎ Maʿrakah Muʿtah, or غَزْوَة مُؤْتَة‎ Ghazwah Muʿtah) was a battle or skirmish fought in September 629 near the village of Mu'tah, east of the Jordan River in Karak Governorate, between the forces of Muhammad and the forces of the Byzantine Empire and their Arab Christian vassals.]
To repeat, I am still a student of these citations, the last time entertaining these issues of history in intensive study being fifty years ago for a high school diploma, not realizing then the import of cross connecting to modern efforts of resurgent Islam. There seems to be a recapture in process (from an ancient recall of events) since the Ottoman's scotched the imperial dream in 1917 and are now looking to reseal the deal under Erdoğan's attempt to reinsert Turkish rule to the south.
Ultimately, to your point of the dissertation, we see the ambitions of empire beginning again to reframe the Middle East in revived Islamism and this time, is it Turkish or Iranian Islamic Regime inferences we should be seeing in the Quranic representations? Inquiring minds want to know.
BTW: is it مَعْرَكَة مُؤْتَة‎ Maʿrakah Muʿtah, or غَزْوَة مُؤْتَة‎ Ghazwah Muʿtah ?

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