The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 08

CHAPTER IV

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MOHAMMED (570-632 A.D.) 111

Mohammed ben Abdallah ben Abdul-Muttalib, 111. Religious unrest, 111. Mohammed’s life, 113. His marriage with Khadija, 113. Mohammed as a prophet, 115. Mohammed an outlaw, 116. The Hegira, 117. Battle of Bedr, 120. Battle of Ohod, 121. Expedition against the Jews, 123. Siege of Medina, extermination of the Jews, 123. Mohammed’s pilgrimage to Mecca, 125. Subjection of Mecca, 126. The victory of Honain and Autas, 128. The last years of Mohammed’s life, 130. Gibbon’s estimate of Mohammed and Mohammedanism, 132.