STUDY OF THE LIFE OF MUḤAMMAD CONSIDERED AS A PREACHER OF ISLAM.
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Arnold, Thomas Walker, Sir
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14 A. von Kremer (3), pp. 309, 310. ↑
15 This would seem to be acknowledged even by Muir, when speaking of the massacre of the Banū Qurayẓah (A.H. 6): “The ostensible grounds upon which Mahomet proceeded were purely political, for as yet he did not profess to force men to join Islam, or to punish them for not embracing it.” (Muir (2), vol. iii. p. 282.) ↑
16 Ibn Isḥāq, p. 648 sq. ↑
17 Muir (2), vol. iv. pp. 107–8. See also Caetani, vol. i. p. 663. “Assai più che tutte le prediche del Profeta, assai più che tutta la bontà delle dottrine islamiche, siffatti vantaggi militari contribuirono al aumentare il numero dei seguaci. La rapidità della diffusione dell’Islām divenne in special modo sensibile per il contegno et per lo spirito di tolleranza, di libertà, e di opportunismo, che diresse il Profeta nei suoi rapporti con i convertiti.” ↑
18 Ibn Isḥāq, p. 943–4. (This story rests on somewhat doubtful authority, cf. Caetani, vol. i. p. 610.) ↑
19 Ibn Saʻd, § 118. ↑
20 Ibn Isḥāq, pp. 252–4. ↑
21 Caetani, vol. ii. t. i. p. 341. ↑
22 Ibn Saʻd, § 56. ↑
23 Ibn Saʻd, § 85. ↑
24 Id. § 86. ↑
25 Id. § 91. ↑
26 See Sprenger, vol. iii. pp. 360–1. ↑
27 Caetani, vol. ii. p. 433. ↑
28 Caetani, vol. ii. p. 429. ↑
29 This has been nowhere more fully and excellently brought out than in the scholarly work of Prof. Ignaz Goldziher (Muhammedanische Studien, vol. i.), from which I have derived the following considerations. ↑