In 622 — the same year Heraclius set out on campaign — Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina. Brownworth identifies this as the birth of the Islamic threat, noting that within five years Muhammad had unleashed the armies of Islam, and within a hundred years of his death in 632 they were at the gates of Constantinople and within 150 miles of Paris.
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Episode 10 (5 mentions)
In 622 — the same year Heraclius set out on campaign — Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina. Brownworth identifies this as the birth of the Islamic threat, noting that within five years Muhammad had unleashed the armies of Islam, and within a hundred years of his death in 632 they were at the gates of Constantinople and within 150 miles of Paris.
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