RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Mount Uhud, Quraysh, Medina
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Yom kippur fast: qiblah (direction of prayer) changed from. 1000 to medina, they were met at the well of badr by a 300 man detatchment of muslims: though poorly equipped and far outnumbered, the. Muslims inflicted a crushing defeat on the meccans: to avenge their defeat, the meccans met the. Muslims he following year by mount uhud (not far from medina: this time they prevailed, following that battle, the jews were expelled from. Medina on the grounds that they had formed alliances with the meccans against the muslims: but the real reason may have been to free the. Muslim state of external influences at a critical stage in its development: meanwhile, the muslims continued to raid the caravans of the. 632: muhammad was always known as the messenger of. Jesus: in other words, every messenger is a prophet, but not every prophet is a messenger, among the messenger prophets, 5 are called the prophets of power because their revelations were.
