Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In 622, a merchant from Mecca, in what is now Saudi Arabia, had to flee his own city. Men wanted him dead. His name was Muhammad. His departure for the oasis of Medina has a name: the Hijra. Later, that date became year 1 of the Muslim calendar.
Nobody could see it yet. But in less than a century, the message born in that desert would bring down great empires and create a state stretching from Spain to the gates of India. Here's how it all began.
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- 2An Arabia the world had forgotten
- 3622: the Hijra changes everything
- 4630: the triumphant return
- 5The roots of a civilization
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary13 terms explained in a tap.
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