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Muhammad
Muhammad was born about AD 570 in the city of Mecca, an important
trading center in western Arabia. He was a member of the Hashim clan of the
powerful Quraysh tribe. Because Muhammad's father, Abd Allah, died before he was
born and his mother, Amina, when he was 6 years old, he was placed in the care
of his grandfather and, after 578, of his uncle Abu Talib, who succeeded as head
of the Hashim clan. At ....
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.... 619, however, Abu Talib died, and the new clan leader was unwilling to
continue the protective arrangement. At about the same time Muhammad lost
another staunch supporter, his wife Khadijah. In the face of persecution and
curtailed freedom to preach, Muhammad and about 70 followers reached the
decision to sever their ties of blood kinship in Mecca and to move to Medina, a
city about 400 km (250 mi) to the north. This move, called the hegira, or hijra,
took place in 622, the first year of th ....
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