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People, Tribes And Society In Arabia Around The Time Of Muhammad.


DS232

2004-062697

0-86078-963-2

People, tribes, and society in Arabia Arabia (ərā`bēə), peninsula (1991 est. pop. 35,000,000), c.1,000,000 sq mi (2,590,000 sq km), SW Asia. It is bordered on the W by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, on the S by the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, on the E by the  around the time of Muhammad Muhammad, prophet of Islam
Muhammad (məhăm`əd) [Arab.,=praised], 570?–632, the name of the Prophet of Islam, one of the great figures of history, b. Mecca.
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Lecker, Michael. (Variorum collected studies series)

Ashgate Publishing Co., [c]2005

358 p.

$114.95

To this collection of his articles and lectures from about 1989 to 2003, Lecker has added a new lecture on idol worship on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons.  of Islam, a study of a pre-Islamic legal document preserved in a literary source, a study on the preservation of Muhammad's letters, articles on the ridda and on eight Arabic tribes. Other lectures and articles concern tax levies for the Sassanians in pre-Islamic Medina, King Ibn Ubayy and the qussas, the emigration emigration: see immigration; migration.  of Utba b. Abi Waqqas from Mecca to Medina, and several articles on the world of Muhammad and his companions.
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