... to Stearns, "the new faith (Islam) threatened to supplant the gods of the Ka"ba, whose shrines had done so much to establish the city as a center of commerce and Bedouin interchange" (Stearns, 284). Muhammad then established himself as a religious and military leader in Medina, and later returned in triumph to Mecca in about 630 A.D. From Mecca, Muhammad was instrumental in ... ...

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