- and more developed, in
contrast to its
minority position in Mecca. The
Medinan Surahs occur mostly at the
beginning and in the
middle of the Qur'an (but...
- in
Medina of his
unsuitability as caliph. The
Medinans mainly consisted of the
Ansar (native
Medinans who had
hosted and
allied with
Muhammad after his...
-
Umayyad ruler sent an army to
subdue Arabia. The
Umayyad army
defeated the
Medinans and took the city, but
Mecca held out in a month-long siege,
during which...
- The
conquest of
Mecca (Arabic: فَتْحُ مَكَّةَ Fatḥu Makkah, alternatively, "liberation of Mecca") was a
military campaign undertaken by
Muhammad and his...
- who
undertook the
migration were then
called the Muhajirun,
while the
Medinan Muslims were
dubbed the Ansar.
According to the 19th-century orientalist...
- in the
highly diverse Medina,
which had a
large Jewish community. Many
Medinans converted to the
faith of the
Meccan immigrants both
before and
after Muhammad's...
-
revealed before Muhammad's
migration to
Medina (hijrah),
while 28 are
Medinan, as they were
revealed after. This
classification is only
approximate in...
-
Medinan methodology and
recognizes the
value of the 'amal. Nevertheless, he
distances himself from the
Medinan School by
opposing a
series of
Medinan...
- Mecca, are
concerned primarily with
spiritual topics,
while the
later Medinan chapters discuss more
social and
legal issues relevant to the
Muslim community...
- Examined", "Examining Her") is the 60th
chapter (sura) of the Quran, a
Medinan sura with 13 verses. The
first verse warns Muslims not to make alliance...
