The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

CHAPTER XXXII. MUHAMMAD AND ARAB ISLAM

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§ 1. Arabia before Muhammad 1

§ 2. Life of Muhammad to the Hegira 4

§ 3. Muhammad becomes a fighting prophet 8

§ 4. The teachings of Islam 14

§ 5. The caliphs Abu Bekr and Omar 16

§ 6. The great days of the Omayyads 22

§ 7. The decay of Islam under the Abbasids 31

§ 8. The intellectual life of Arab Islam 34