Brownworth notes that in 622 — the same year Heraclius set out on campaign — Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina (the Hijra), and within five years had unleashed the armies of Islam. Muhammad died of a fever in 632, but within a hundred years his followers were at the gates of Constantinople and within 150 miles of Paris.
Also known as: The Prophet Muhammad
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Brownworth notes that in 622 — the same year Heraclius set out on campaign — Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina (the Hijra), and within five years had unleashed the armies of Islam. Muhammad died of a fever in 632, but within a hundred years his followers were at the gates of Constantinople and within 150 miles of Paris.
“Though Muhammad himself died in 632 of a fever, within a hundred years his followers were”
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