u/amranya

dead see scrolls were a ground breaking finding that changed biblical studies significantly because it revealed the milieu jesus grew up in and the context early christianity emerged from and explained many contested and unnanswred questions about early cristianity, any finding similar about islam found? if not do you think we'll find something similar or is it hard because of the political restrictions in middle east country especially saudi arabia, yemen, syria, jordan and iraq? or there is none at all because there was no writting culture in the area?

i said in a previous post i'm new to this field of study, i still didn't choose the first book to read yet, but i'm curious to know what's the most interesting or ground breaking finding/s about origins of islam until now? i mean something truly change the tradition narrative.
if none found yet, give me the most interesting one/s.

I just discovered this field of study and i'm interested in good books suggestions about origins of quran and islam like the environment it emerges from or what kind of movement was early or its story from historical critical study of the quran itself etc. i did a small research and found out that books of extremist revisionists like patricia crone are weak in spotlight of new evidence, so i want something aligns with new evidence.