Talk:The Truth About Muhammad

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

"anachronistic reading of the historical context"?
The second sentence of the second paragraph of the lede states "The critical reception of the book was generally unfavorable, with Spencer being criticized for his selective use of sources, subjective interpretation and anachronistic reading of the historical context" (emphasis added). This phrase seems nonsensical. An "anachronism" is defined as "something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time."https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anachronism In other words, it is something temporally inconsistent with another time. "Historical context" is the larger body of information surrounding events that aid in understanding motives, influences, etc., which shape those events. So it is difficult to see how a writer of a book on history can have an "anachronistic reading" of those surrounding historical events unless they are imposing or imputing motives, influences, etc., which are ahistorical, such as if a historian were to write that one of the causes of the French Revolution was "transphobia" (a phenomenon unknown in 18th century France), or if a film about the Battle of Culloden showed soldiers wearing wristwatches. This is not to suggest that the author is necessarily accurate or even-handed in their account of history, just that the phrase "...anachronistic reading of the historical context" does not stand-up to logical scrutiny and should be either explained or removed. Bricology (talk) 20:20, 10 May 2023 (UTC)