RLG350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Banu Khazraj
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622 hijra career of mohammed in mecca was a failure. Distance between mecca and medina is like toronto and ottawa. Mohammed worked a deal with the representations of tribes from medina. 2 major pagan arab tribes living in it and many jewish tribes it"s a complicated setting. Situation in the city was tense and bad. This was a city where the sitaion has become ungovernable and unmanageable. How did arabs resolve conflicts: fighting, arbitration. Arbitration you call on somebody where both groups agree upon and beforehand submit to his/her arbitrator. Arbitrator would come and act in between to keep the peace. A band or a group from the two tribes converted to islam in mecca but they also saw in. Mohammed a solution to the conflict in medina. If he moves to mecca, they will protect him. Mohammed was also coming understanding gthat he was some sort of an arbitrator.
