Prophetic Biography in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
السيرة النبوية في دائرة المعارف البريطانية
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مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريف بالمدينة المنورة
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(١) The winning of the Meccans: Muhammad’s farsightedness as a statesman is manifest in the policies he next adopted. He might have proceeded to crush the Meccans، and he indeed put economic pressure on them; but his main aim was to gain their willing adherence to Islam. (٢) The closing years: the unification of Arabia: Ever since the hijrah، Muhammad had been forming alliances with nomadic tribes. At first these were probably nonaggression pacts، but، when he was strong enough to offer protection، he made it a condition of alliance that the tribe should become Muslim. (٣) Muhammad benefitted from the defeat of the Persian Empire by the Byzantine (Christian) Empire ()، for، in the Yemen and in places on the Persian Gulf، minorities that had relied on Persian support against Byzantium now turned to Muhammad instead.
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