Historicizing Muhammad and Late Antiquity Arabia

The Dream of Emperor Heraclius (c. 1385-87) by Italian painter Agnolo Gaddi. An angel is depicted in the top-right corner playing into parallels of Walter Benjamin’s “Angel of History” found in IX of his “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”

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Historicizing Muhammad and Late Antiquity Arabia

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