Reply #13: Maybe to a historian it's meaningless, but I didn't post in a forum specifically for historians.

[Boojatta]

If your point is that the period from the year 1700 to the year 2008 is a relatively small amount of time that excludes the first thousand years of Islam and that maybe we shouldn't ignore the first thousand years unless there have been some significant changes to the documents that define Islam or at least significant reinterpretations of the documents that define Islam, then I agree that your point is worth making.

Alternatively, you might argue either that there's no basis for connecting Islam and any kind of law or that there's no legitimate basis for assuming that Mecca has any true connection to Islam.