Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians - Electric Scotland

282 t INDEX
Mecca (cont.)
Christians in, 35, 49; conquest by
Muslims, 85–8
Medina, 6, 9, 21, 25, 40, 48, 68–69;
Jews of 21, 68, 103–104, 120, 128;
and Muhammad 71–72, 77–79,
80–82, 103–104, 194
Medina Accords, 69–70, 128
Mehmed II, sultan, 197
Messiah, 8, 22, 23, 31, 110, 255,
268–269
Midrash, 105
Migrants (muhajirun), 69, 70, 78, 79,
128–130, 134, 206
Mihrab, 221
Millet, 177, 196–197
Mina, 44, 223, 224, 225
Minbar, 221
Mirajj, see Muhammad, Ascension
Miryam, concubine of Muhammad,
82, 84
Mishna, 161, 182
Modernism, 214
Mongols, 146, 211–212
Monks, Monasticism, 27, 50, 248–
249
Monotheism, 10–11, 24, 34, 73
Morality, 170–173
Moses (Musa), 2, 4, 5, 9, 57, 64, 73,
95, 239, 263
Mosque, 221–222; “mosque in
opposition”, 88–89
Muawiya, caliph, 135
Mudejars, 196
Muezzin, 220
Mufti, 174
Muhammad, 2, 5, 6, 8, 19, 21, 25; his
life, 51 ff.; the early years, 53–54;
literacy, 60, 96, 108; Opening of the
Breast 63, 64; first revelations, 54–
55; revelations to, 99, 166; accused
of being a poet or seer, 55, 59–60,
69; Night Journey, 62–63, 229,
261; Ascension 63, 64, 261;
conquest of Mecca 240; his farewell
pilgrimage, 90, 222–223; his death,
90; tomb in Medina, 27, 90, 227;
wives and children of 82–84, 97,
157–158; as moral exemplar 156–
158; views on wealth, possessions,
157–159as intercessor, 263;
celebration of his birthday, 236; and
Jesus, 96–98, 156–157
Muhammad Ahmad, 272
Muhammad ibn al-Hanifiyya, 137,
268, 269
Mujahid, 267
Mukhtar, al-, 137
Mumin (“believer”), 187
Munafiqun. See “Hypocrites”
Musa. See Moses
Musa al-Kazim, Imam, 139, 151
Muslim (“submitter”), 10, 58, 73,
187, 253
Muta, 87
Mutazilites, 123–124, 265
Muzdalifa, 44
Nadir, Jewish tribe of Medina, 78, 81
Najaf, 152
Najran, 32
Names (of God), 3, 252
Nasara (Christians), 27
Nawawi, al-, 241–242
New Testament, 8, 27; in Arabic 50
Neyshabur, 151
Noah, 1, 4, 5, 7
“Occasions of Revelation,” 119–121
Original Sin, 181
Ottoman Turks, 146–150, 197
Pagans, paganism, 5, 10, 89–90; at
Mecca, 41–43, 239–240
Pakistan, 152, 214
Palaces, 64, 259