Mohammed (570-632) the founder of Islam. He was born in Mecca, where he lived as a merchant married Khadija, a rich widow, and had a daughter Fatima. At the age of forty he had a vision and began to preach as a prophet, exhorting the people to repentance, prayer, belief in the one God Allah, and alms- giving. In 622 to escape assassination he fled to Medina, where he set up a theocratic state. In 630 he conquered Mecca. He died in Medina (632), having established his authority throughout S. W. Arabia. From the Webster's Dictionary,Encyclopedic Edition 1987, Unless the Muslim Faith has anything to add to this most people know this much about Mohammed.
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