Accepting under this tweet your theories about why Islam bothered to prohibit the consumption of pork given that Arabs did not eat pork or keep pigs anyway (you can't herd them, and you need permanent water to raise them anyway). I have my own theories but curious to hear yours.
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Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi
It was inherited from the prohibition on pork in the Hebrew Bible, where it was enforcing a cultural barrier between the Israelites who were desert nomads and competing wealthy river valley civilizations where pigs were a major source of meat
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Actually at that time nobody in the Near East ate pork anywayhttps://longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pig-the-history-of-a-taboo/ …
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Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi @arthur_affect
Acc to the above (well-sourced) longread, the peoples of the Near East eschewed pork before the Hebrew bible prohibited it. "Like most of their neighbors, the Israelites rejected pork. Unlike those neighbors, [they] came to consider [it] a central element of their identity."
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I think the argument still holds, though, even if it only became emphasized later on as a way to differentiate Jewish identity from conquerors from further afield (the Greeks and Romans)
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