Kitab Mubeen - Next Session - Territorial Ambitions Prime Motivations?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 18, 2021 at 19:44

DNM: Are we alluding to what this points to?
The allusions are that ambitions of empire may have been the motivations as the various khanates and other imperial ambitions prompted an Arabic response as we see many of the Mesopotamian and other regional competitions of post Roman conquests fall into disarray and subsequent imaginations of power seek to overthrow areas in the vacuum of failed Persian/Greek disputes while the Byzantines are in similar dissolution.
Replace the theological basis of the Byzantine's for the lack of religious integrity and now there is a new religious (Quranically posed) basis for superiority in who shall reign supreme in the holy land and beyond. Only when the diluted theosophical purposes lost its own integrity did the invasion outside of the Middle East slow down the conquests to the regional perimeters we see today, ending in 1917 with the Ottomans collapsing and the British/French redistribution of Arabic tribal indigents in the Levant take place.
This makes Persian/Iranian and Turkish persuasions left in the lurch for the Abrahamic Accords to move in.
New motivations are seen here.

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