{"id":21512,"date":"2026-02-17T01:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:38:30","slug":"the-origins-of-islam-tom-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21512","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Islam\u2014Tom Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many stories Islam tells about Muhammad and Mecca are not based in history. They appear to have been created hundreds of years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Origins of Islam\u2014Tom Holland\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDQh2nk8ih4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many stories Islam tells about Muhammad and Mecca are not based in history. They appear to have been created hundreds of years later. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eDQh2nk8ih4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[770,1047,57],"class_list":["post-21512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-history","tag-islam","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21513,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}