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The Holy Prophet Muhammad told his wife Aisha, in a hadith mentioned by Imam Ahmad, "the Quraysh are the backbone of the people, and the people shall be destroyed as soon as the Quraysh is destroyed".
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"the Quraysh are the backbone of the people, and the people shall be destroyed as soon as the Quraysh is destroyed".
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Colonial administrators were much more likely to be familiar with the campaigns of Caesar than those of Muhammad and the Quraysh.
East is East 2007
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Colonial administrators were much more likely to be familiar with the campaigns of Caesar than those of Muhammad and the Quraysh.
East is East 2007
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Similarly in Islamic historiography: Muhammad's political-military adversaries were the members of his disowned pagan Quraysh tribe back in Mecca, who launched three successive campaigns against the nascent faith-community in Medina.
Eradicating the 'Little Satan' Ze'ev Maghen 2009
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Colonial administrators were much more likely to be familiar with the campaigns of Caesar than those of Muhammad and the Quraysh.
East is East 2007
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Muhammad was a violent warlord who killed innocent men and boys of the Jewish Quraysh tribe after they had surrendered.
Seriously? Matrix Producer Wants to Make a $150m Biopic of Islamic Prophet Muhammad | /Film 2009
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Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.
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"'If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud' ('Umdat al-Salik, o9.16)."
Back to Abnormal 2009
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Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well-versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century.
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