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Sword and Seizure:Muhammad's Epilepsy and creation of Islam
By Abbas Sadeghian (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
Sword and Seizure
The first chapter of Sword and Seizure describes Muhammad's environment. Fortunately, historians who covered Muhammad's life made an attempt to write about this part of history, which is called Jahiliyah, or "the Time of Ignorance."
Muhammad's childhood is the topic of the second chapter. Most psychologists would probably agree that we can not know a person without knowing his childhood. Although the knowledge about Muhammad's childhood is limited, enough material has been collected to give a reasonable understanding of what occurred during Muhammad's early life.
The third chapter is an attempt to report what is known about the events leading to Muhammad's first encounter with the angel Gabriel and the introduction of prophethood to his life. Taken together, the first three chapters are a necessary introduction to the rest of the book.
Chapter four is probably this most important section of the book, in this part we go through the symptoms of c complex partial seizures and report each symptom based on the descriptions of his friends and wives.
Every symptom, cause and its effect on his behavior has been reported in detail. When necessary the quotations have been reported in English and Arabic together to eliminate any possibility of misinterpretations. While this section regarding Muhammad's condition is my favorite chapter of the book, it was also the most difficult to write. I studied many books to learn of Muhammad's symptoms and reviewed many articles to put the whole premise together. The results were extremely rewarding-as a diagnostician, being able to make the proper diagnosis based on historical facts is extremely rewarding.
We were able to provide a detailed account of Muhammad's: Olfactory hallucinations, gustatory hallucinations, and excessive perspiration, auditory and visual Hallucinations. Obsessions, compulsions and the sense of mission.
The next two chapters are dedicated to the effects of seizure disorder on the process of the rest of his life. We could provide detailed evidence of his new behaviors including brutality as well as hypersexuality. Scores of pages are dedicated to examples of these two changes in him. It is interesting to see how a man who was a virgin up to the age of 25 and was devoted to his first wife up to the age 53, suddenly turns to a sex driven person. When Muhammad was dieing at the age of sixty three he had his head on his favorite wife's lap who was only sixteen years old, and he had been sexually involved with for at least seven years.
One of the chapters of Sword and Seizure is devoted to Muhammad's brutality and how he ordered 600 men to be decapitated in one day. Also there reports of his orders for torture, plunder and taking women and children to captivity and selling to slavery.
Of course Sword and Seizure has more in it, and one should read the book him or herself and make his or her judgment.
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