Suhaib Webb – The Illusion of Literacy in Islamic History- The Mistake in Assuming Everyone Could Read

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Speaker 2 discusses the misunderstandings of the age of the prophet salallahu Al Goehari, stating that literacy is rare in the majority of the world. They also mention the history of the prophet and the stance they hold on it, stating that the majority of people will read and write history.

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			Zaynab Al Goehari, she's a professor in Bawthaw,
		
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			still active, genius.
		
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			She said we should also add something else.
		
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			The assumption of this age now is everyone
		
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			will do has literacy.
		
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			But the assumption of the age of the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam is that literacy
		
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			is rare.
		
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			So that's the mistake we may make when
		
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			we
		
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			read history and we read our.
		
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			Same thing here. We look at the history
		
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			of the prophet,
		
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			we look at the Sahaba, we look at
		
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			the Tabireen, we think the majority of them
		
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			could read and write. The majority of the
		
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			ulema.