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The focus of individual chapters is not restricted to politics but questions of. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. The cambridge history of islam, volume 1a ashton central mosque. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Islam which were carried into africa and into europe during this. In may 622, after being warned of a plot to assassinate him, muhammad secretly left his home in mecca to emigrate to yathrib, 320 km.
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