The early Muslim–Meccan conflict refers to a series of raids, in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his companions participated. The raids were generally...

to eat except meager quantities of food which some of the compassionate Meccans smuggled to them or if the people of Muhammad's tribe were able to buy...

3 AH). Following the Muslim emigration to Medina, hostilities with the Quraysh intensified, largely due to Muslim raids on Meccan trade caravans. In 624...

(the ṣaḥāba) he also met with increasing hostility and persecution from Meccan elites. In 622 CE Muhammad migrated to the city of Yathrib (now known as...

historical periods, from the Crusades to the Ottoman period. Early Muslim–Meccan conflict Boahen, A. Adu (1962). "The Caravan Trade in the Nineteenth Century"...

1971—other American Muslim groups increasingly condemned the Nation as un-Islamic. Conflict developed between the NOI and other Muslim groups with largely...

their own laws among the Muslim and non-Muslim communities as well as an agreement to defend Medina from external threats. Meccan forces and their allies...

(later renamed Medina). The conflict between the Quraysh and the Muslims is accepted to have begun at this point. Overall, Meccan efforts to annihilate Islam...

who came under Muslim rule with the spread of Islam, which began in the early 7th century in the time of Muhammad and the early Muslim conquests. Under...

in Mecca, pre-Islamic Arabia, the new Muslims were frequently subjected to abuse and persecution by the Meccans, known as the Mushrikun in Islam, who...

by his marriage to Maymuna bint al-Harith. Further, several prominent Meccans, such as Khalid ibn al-Walid and Amr ibn al-As, recognized Muhammad's increasing...

killed at the Battle of Karbalā. The rise to power of Banu Umayya, the Meccan tribe of elites who had vehemently opposed Muhammad under the leadership...

The Muslim–Quraysh War (Arabic: الحرب الإسلامية-القرشية) was a six-year military and religious conflict in the Arabian Peninsula between the early Muslims...

attempts by the Muslims to intercept and raid Meccan trade caravans between 623 and early 624 CE. Muhammad took keen interest in capturing Meccan caravans and...

after eight years of intermittent fighting with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The...

intense conflict and rivalry among Muslim rulers, the caliphate lay dormant and largely unclaimed since the 1920s. For the majority of Muslims, the caliph...

marked by periods of cooperation, of ambivalence, and of open conflict. The early Muslims fought battles with a number of the Jewish tribes of Arabia,...

of the Meccans' camp, Khalid charged against the resulting break in the Muslims' rear defensive lines. In the ensuing rout, several dozen Muslims were killed...

Islamic studies that questions traditional Muslim narratives of Islam's origins. Until the early 1970s, non-Muslim Islamic scholars, while not accepting accounts...

as the verses that authorize armed struggle against the Meccan enemies of the nascent Muslim community in Medina, that is, "when Muhammad was in a position...

Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam is a 1987 book written by scholar and historiographer of early Islam Patricia Crone. The book argues that Islam did...

member of the leading Meccan family of Ummaya and was indeed the sole representative of the Meccan patricians among the early companions of the Prophet...

up of leather and prepared by fine skin. The Meccans appealed to the generals, arguing that the Muslim migrants were rebels who had invented a new religion...

from Mecca, the Muslims fought the Meccan Quraysh at the Battle of Badr in 624, and at the Battle of Uhud in 625. Although the Muslims were defeated at...

raid on a Meccan merchant caravan. The Muslims set an ambush for the Meccans at Badr. Aware of the plan, the Meccan caravan eluded the Muslims. Meanwhile...

workers, and concubines. The use of slaves for hard physical labor early on in Muslim history led to several destructive slave revolts, the most notable...

Meccans, with Abu Lahab and Abu Jahl as the most famous enemies of Muhammad in Islamic tradition. This led to persecution of Muhammad and his Muslim followers...

Sufyan replaced the slain leader of the Meccan army, Abu Jahl, and led the Meccans to victory against the Muslims at the Battle of Uhud in 625. After his...

the Quran is highly self-referential. The feature is more evident in early Meccan suras. In Islam, ’i‘jāz (Arabic: اَلْإِعْجَازُ), "inimitability challenge"...

AD. Gaza was conquered by the Muslim general Amr ibn al-'As in 637 AD and most Gazans adopted Islam during early Muslim rule. Thereafter, the city went...