(16) Muhammad's mission (Medina period)

OUTLINE OF CHAPTER
The political situation in Medina: Significance of hijrah, blood bath at the battle of Buath (618), civil wars among Jewish tribes of Medina, acceptance of Muhammad in Medina, building of the first mosque, the constitution of Medina.
Formation of super tribe: True believers (among emigrants, helpers and bedouin); the hypocrites and nominal believers:
Hypocrites of Medina, fear of moral commitment as cause of hypocrisy, hypocrites enjoin the doing of what is wrong, hypocrites among bedouin, hypocrisy due to fear of persecution, reverence in public and scorn in private, hypocrites and powers of evil, dealing with hypocrites, prohibition of moral alliance with the deniers of the truth.
Nominal believers: outward profession of faith and rituals, test of faith, wavering between belief and disbelief, admonition to those wavering in faith, accounting of hypocrites on the judgment day.
Jews of medina: equal rights for Jews, conversion of learned Jews, the beginning of Jewish opposition and verbal criticism, alliance of Jews with pagan Arabs.
 
 
 
 
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