Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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career ofconquest which could not be stayed until they had overrun thefairest portions of the Roman and Persian empires and givena new religion to a large part of the human race. 57. Mohammed. Mohammed, the great Prophet of the Arabs,was born in the holy city of Mecca, probably in the year a.d. 570.He sprang from the distinguished tribe of the Koreish, the cus-todians of the sacred shrine of the Kaaba. In his early years hewas a shepherd and a watcher of flocks by night, as the greatreligious teachers Moses and David had been before him. Laterhe became a merchant and a camel driver. Mohammed possessed a soul that was early and deeply stirredby the contemplation of those themes that ever attract the reli-gious mind. He declared that he had visions in which the angelGabriel appeared to him and made to him revelations which hewas commanded to make known to his fellow-men. The startingpoint of the new faith which he was to teach was this: There isbut one God, and Mohammed is his Prophet.
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§ 58J THE HEGIRA . 49 For a long time Mohammed endeavored to gain adherentsmerely by persuasion; but such was the incredulity which heeverywhere met that at the end of three years his disciplesnumbered only forty persons. 58. The Hegira (a.d. 622). The teachings of Mohammed atlast aroused the anger of a powerful party among the Koreish,who feared that they as the guardians of the national idols of theKaaba would be compromised in the eyes of the other tribes byallowing such heresy to be openly taught by one of their number,and accordingly they began to persecute Mohammed and hisfollowers. To escape these persecutions Mohammed fled to the neighbor-ing city of Medina. This Hegira, or Flight, as the word signiiies,occurred a.d. 622, and was considered by the Moslems as suchan important event in the history of their religion that theyadopted it as the beginning of a new era, and from it still con-tinue to reckon historical dates. 59. The Faith extended by the Sword. His cause beingwarmly

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