Excerpt from The Rise and Decline of Islam
The Rise and Decline of Islam. countries have kept so far in the rear of other land in respect of intellectual and social progress. Ii short, the question is, how it was that, Pallas-like the Faith sprang, ready armed, from the groun conquering and to conquer; and why, the weapoj dropping from its grasp, Islam began to lose I pristine vigour, and finally relapsed into inactivity. Two periods in the mission of Mahomet. The Rapid Spread Of Islam. The personal ministry of Mahomet divides itself into two distinct periods. First, his life at Mecca, as a preacher and a prophet. Second, his life at Medina, as a prophet and a king. It is only in the first of these periods that Islam at all runs parallel with Christianity. The great body of his fellow-citizens rejected the ministi of Mahomet, and bitterly opposed his claims. ELs efforts at Mecca were, therefore, confined to teaching and preaching, and to the publishing of tho earlier Suras or chapters of his Revelation. After some thirteen years spent thus, his converts, to the number of about a hundred and fifty men and women, were forced by the persecution of tho Coreish (the ruling tribe at Mecca, from which Mahomet was descended), to quit their nativ city and emigrate to Medina.1 Some fifty morei 1 See Life of Mahontet, p.138, Smith and Elder.
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