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Muhammad: The Warrior ProphetBy Richard A. Gabriel | MHQ | 32 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Richard A. Gabriel, a military historian and adjunct professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, has authored forty-one books. His latest is Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General (Oklahoma University Press, 2007). This article by Richard A. Gabriel was originally published in the Summer 2007 issue of MHQ Magazine. For more great articles, subscribe to MHQ magazine today! Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Tags: Ancient-Medieval, Historical Conflicts, Historical Figures, Religion
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32 Comments to “Muhammad: The Warrior Prophet”
1-Muhammad himself was under siege by 10,000 arabian soldiers in his Madina and he had onlyt 3,000 soldiers!
2-Muhammad in the 1st 6 years in Madina was attacked 3 times each time by a massive force more than his army at least 3 time and he won!
“Deffensive wares”
3-All the dead soldiers from both sides in Muhaammad’s camaign was 270 soldiers and no 1 single Civilian !
4-”offence” Muhammad orderd an attack and Assasination of only 2 leadders later after being attacked to stop the danger comming from the arbian and Jewsh tribes after the 6th year in Madina and after bieng attacked from these tribes for a continious 6 years and by massive forces.
By muslim on Jul 25, 2008 at 8:39 am
Great. Very informative my friend. The muslims had such a huge empire. No other religion had such an empire. The muslims defeated all the greeks, romans and the mongols when they were asians. Then the muslims took over the mongol empire, from Arghun Khans childern.
By Sikh on Aug 17, 2008 at 6:27 am
Most people do not know though. But 15 000 muslims fought 600 000 Romans. ZafarKhan, who was a very blessed general of the delhi sultan reign, he was truly blessed by the Great Allah. He defeated both Kublai Khan, and Chingiizz Khan again and again. Google mongol conquests of india. The mongols ran from the muslims so many times. THIS WAS BEFORE THE MONGOLS CONVERTED TO ISLAM. The muslims conquered more then anyone else had ever had. The ottomans, and the mongols. Great respect to MY MUSLIM BROTHERS. MAD RESPECT!!!
By Sikh on Aug 17, 2008 at 6:28 am
sikh is full of it
By CREEK on Aug 28, 2008 at 9:17 am
Creek is right.
By McHugh on Aug 29, 2008 at 6:39 pm
mohammadism is a Satantically inspired belief, and mohammad was nothing but a bandit who was chosen by Satan to conduct the last attack on the True Faith of Christ. All of his success is due to the support of Satan. And now the muhamadins kill each other over the importance of the man’s brother-in-law! Get a grip.
By Stewart Moneymaker on Sep 12, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hello friends,
Glad to address myself to knowledgeable ones.
Could you gear me toward a source on the above quotes Jewish tribes in arabia who fought against the Prophet?
And something about the ”Khans”.I believe they left footprints in the Levant: do you think they intermarried with Mohammed’s family?
By Chantal-E. on Sep 21, 2008 at 5:40 pm
anyone with a sane mind will immediately know that the great messenger of ALLAH never killed or attacked any kind of people except by rightous causes …. he accepted peace and offered it …. but the real problem is in the other side the west … you curse the messenger of GOD and you through charges as you like all because he defended whats right and banished what is wrong … you fight a man only because he says i worship ALLAH the all mighty god where there is no god but him … THE GOD of every thing … you accuse Mohamed of being satanic … if braying to god giving charity to the poor and protecting the weak from the strong .. ordering people to do whats right and leave whats wrong is satanic then you are crazy hard minded people with great envy on this region and its followers … notice that every single technology the Christians ever made was because their separation of science and Christianity which they missed up badly … and every single failure of Muslims made was because leaving the Islamic way of live …. and you are the last people to talk about the bandits because you annihilated complete civilizations with your ignorance and Christianity and stealing complete continents … and you never noticed that until you abandoned your sick satanic remodeling of the true Christianity given to you by GOD who has no partners ….
By karim on Sep 26, 2008 at 1:05 am
. . . karim, you prove my point better than I ever could. Your ignorance and thinly veiled hatred of everything you can’t understand, and mindless denial of the truth is what makes mohammadans like yourself a plague to mankind.
By Stewart on Oct 1, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Jesus never ordered the killing of anyone. People, having free will, have killed in His name, but He spoke of love, peace and respecting everyone. Including women. He never married either.
Mohammad had eleven wives – one nine years old! He ordered people killed if they did not convert to Islam. Very respectful.
By Jan Willard on Oct 14, 2008 at 8:19 am
The crusades were an eye opener to the muslims. A rag tag army from europa crushed muslim resistance each and every step of the way and conquered the ancient world’s biggest prize, Jerusalem. Amazing! It was just a prelude to the global dominance of the western world that was to come. Segno della croce invictus!
By The Realist on Nov 23, 2008 at 11:59 pm
to me prophet mohammad is indeed a bandit,adulterer and a murderer.he killed and rapped many people.it is a undeniable history truth.if he was really a prophet he should had shown love but not sexual addictions.he indeed inherited satanic characteristics.but the doloress lord jesus died for us to go to heaven.this is what we call a messiah or the son of god.he did not order people killing nor raping.BLESS THE LORD GOD.IN JESUS NAME I PRAY.
By jesussservant7 on Nov 29, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Islam is big lie and so is christianity becouse they spread the religion by the sword. either you beleive or die. People choose life and they had to choose a certain religion. which ever religion is in power they had to obey or they were going to get there head cut off. I have seen alot of cruel stuff in islam becouse they love to cut off heads and hands… I dont know of any god that want you to suffer and die.
By ex muslim on Jan 11, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I think people comment on prophet mohammed without knowing his actual way of life. He was the one who stopped female infanticide and declared women are equal to men in every status,and he taught people brotherhood and unity.If he had thought he would had led a life of luxury but still he led a life in a house which have nothing except his sleeping cot and few cooking vessels.
Its true that islam has severe punishments like cutting off hands for theft and taking life for life but one should understand if the world follows this policy the whole world would become free of theft and murder
And u Jesuservent come out of the world of ignorence.Shame on you for writing false and nonsense comments
By Omer on Jan 13, 2009 at 8:03 am
Omer it’s clear you don’t know anything about mohammed or mohammedism (islam) at all! Female equality among muslims? What a sick joke.
Crusade anyone!!!!!???
By Stewart on Jan 13, 2009 at 6:16 pm
To me muhammed is the killer and father of all terorist in this world,shem to call him a prophet.
By Ally on Mar 8, 2009 at 8:29 am
Quran has been mis-quoted many times. if someone can prove to me that no other religious book allowed killing (whether self-defence or in a war) then i shall convert to it. Every religion (that is god sent) has talked about war and killing (self-defense or punishment) if it hasn’t touched that issue then the god of that religion doesn’t understand HUMAN NATURE and therefore is not a GOD.
Please watch this video by the speaker Dr. Zakir Naik called islam and terrorism. also he has a good sppech on islam and women right. both can be found on youtube. He even goes as far as calling muslims to be terrorists. A must watch by all.
in the modern world with internet it is easy to spread news whether it is true or not and that is the main problem facing islam plus the radical acts of a few muslims that assist the west in making islam look bad.
By peace on Mar 10, 2009 at 6:44 am
Muhammad was not a prophet of God but a genius who knew how to unite the people in a common cause. This article clearly shows his mastery of creating then using a religion to unite people.
I believe in God but of no religion created by man. I understand the spiritual need to live my lives until my soul is again part of God. I do not believe in Christianity, Buhdism, Islam, Judaism or any other religion. They all have merit but each one claims to be better than the other. That tells me that religion is not of God but of man.
By common sense on Mar 21, 2009 at 2:39 pm
The Realist, how can you consider the crusaders to be a band of rag tags? They came from a continent with the centuries of experiences in war, and every part of that continent witnessed invasion by one group of people or the other: the Romans, then the Barbarians, the Saxons, the Vikings, Muslim conquests of Iberia… Every man who joined the crusade to Jerusalem was a battle-hardened man.
Add to that the Muslim world had in a relative state of peace before the crusades, and a victory by united European nations becomes imminent. Conversely, much later, Muslims were at a much higher state of preparedness when fought to recapture Jerusalem.
By Sheriff on Mar 26, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Stewart, all you saying emits from religious fanaticism and Islamophobia. Please, find someplace else to dump all your meaningless hatred. Just look at your own history before criticizing others using lies and falsities as your basis. Take Charlemagne for example. He executed swathes of Germans and Saxons in the name of the Cross and forcibly converted masses of them into Christianity by the sword, and this he did this in numerous campaigns over many years. This man kept his daughters always close at hand so that they would satisfy his disgusting sexual desires (he engaged in incest with his daughters, who lived with him till his death, see David Levering Lewis’s book). He prevented his daughters from being married, yet permitted them to engage in extra-marital sexual relationships and cherished the bastard sons they gave birth to. This same man would be crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope himself?!?!?!?!
Give me one scenario where an entire people were both mass murdered and force converted into Islam by a person or a group of persons with such popularity in the Muslim world similar to that of Charlemagne in Europe and the Christian world.
Part of what karim said is right. Europeans colonised most of the globe, taking the resources of the regions they colonised to their own benefit and to finance their wars, when these resources should have benefited the natives. Look at what happened to the natives in the Americas or Australia. Look at the many African countries- all previous European colonies -that today suffer from poverty and/or civil war.
As for the Sunni/Shia violence in Iraq which you have alluded to, that was primarily a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Now things have settled and that violence is abating. But then look at your own history, full of rivalries between sects of Christianity and years of devastating war (Thirty Years’ War, for example).
My advice Stewart, do some serious reading and learn before you speak.
By Sheriff on Mar 26, 2009 at 6:27 pm
You dumbs.first read your tampered bible consisting of scientific as well as mathematical errors.its a challenge to all christendom to point out single contradiction in the holy quran. The whole of humanity cant point out single error in the quran on any ground.
By Don always right on Apr 5, 2009 at 2:36 am
jesussservant7,Ally,common sense couple with those of that says rubish persist what you did not withness nor any of your generation,! It’s better you has for forgiveness from Almighty Allah on all what you have said over the prophet Mohammed (S.W.S).
Come to talk of it; If Prophet Mohammed is not a good prophet then who else is the prophet? tell me. You talk as if you are out of your mind or your brain in intursicated.
anyone with a sane mind will immediately know that the great messenger of ALLAH never killed or attacked any kind of people except by rightous causes …. he accepted peace and offered it …. but the real problem is in the other side the west … you curse the messenger of GOD and you through charges as you like all because he defended whats right and banished what is wrong … you fight a man only because he says i worship ALLAH the all mighty god where there is no god but him … THE GOD of every thing … you accuse Mohamed of being satanic … if braying to god giving charity to the poor and protecting the weak from the strong .. ordering people to do whats right and leave whats wrong is satanic then you are lunatic hard minded people with great envy on this region and its followers … notice that every single technology the Christians ever made was because their separation of science and Christianity which they missed up badly … and every single failure of Muslims made was because leaving the Islamic way of live …. and you are the last people to talk about the bandits because you annihilated complete civilizations with your ignorance and Christianity and stealing complete continents … and you never noticed that until you abandoned your sick satanic remodeling of the true Christianity given to you by GOD who has no partners…….Many of you are indeed a bandit,adulterer,sinner and a murderer.
By Will Sultan . on Apr 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Sheriff your ignorance of history is almost as amazing as your ignorance of religion.
If you want evidence of just one example of muzzy atrocities, look up the sack of Antioch.
The Americans started the shia and sunni hating each other??! LOL you are too much.
By Stewart on Apr 20, 2009 at 5:11 pm
brothers do not taint your tongues with words of hatred and insults. I ask that if you wish to respond to the claims brought against the Prophet (SAW) do so in a manner that would please him, for he would not wish for a crusade in his name.
Mr. Stewart,
your earlier comments on Islam, calling it “Mohammadism” proves to me that you have either been reading the wrong the material or simply just not reading. It is an Arabic term “Islam” and Muslim if you wish to refer to one who is of Islam. If you see mistakes such as getting the name wrong I can absolutely guarantee you that the information is wrong: calling Islam “Mohamadism”, calling Muslims “Islamists”, and quotes from the Quran that are taken out of context. If you take something out of context they you loose the meaning of that something that was removed. My suggestion is to get yourself a copy of the Quran in English, make sure you ask a Muslim religious leader which authors are better for translations. I hope you will take my suggestions and not be angered by me.
Mr. Willard,
Sorry to disappoint you but Capital Punishment is clearly laid out in the Old Testament, Which Jesus (A) adhered to, for he was indeed a Rabi. Although I do agree Jesus never did order a killing of any one. But then again, he was never confronted with such political problems as Muhammad (SAW) was.
Mr. jesussservant7, Just as I told Mr. Willard above I tell you. And I must also ask you like I asked Mr. Stuart to revise your research.
Mr. Realist is it?
The Crusades were a massive force that were raised for a single purpose. A religious purpose. And they massacred All Jews, Muslims and even some Christians both along the way and in Jerusalem. Although I was not aware of them being hardened soldiers (maybe they were, maybe they weren’t) a force as large as theirs cannot be considered ragtag, unless you just think they were dirty. Not to mention the fact that They fled the city of Jerusalem as soon as Salahoudin approached the walls of Jerusalem.
Mr. Ally,
It seems to me that you have been scarred by something in your past, I’m no psychologist but I’d recommended you calm yourself down.
Mr. Common Sense,
The Quran states clearly “There is no compulsion in religon” and the Quran also states that those who have not realized that the Quran is the true message of God and are righteous human beings will achieve paradise. Alhumdulillah, I respect your calmness and your willingness to be open minded. Peace be with you.
I pray that you all can find common ground to stand on and dismiss the earlier confrontation for it was naught more than a vicious circle. Salam, Peace be with you all.
By Muslim4life on May 3, 2009 at 5:41 am
Dear Muzzy4life,
Sorry to disappoint you but Mohammadism is a legitimate term. You may not prefer it but it is legitimate and puts the focus correctly on the fact that your false religion is based on the lies of a satanically inspired human.
As impressive as your attempt to be “above” the fray may seem to you, unfortunately your ignorance is what shows through.
May you be blessed with the realization that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the one true light of the world and leave your satanic cult.
By Stewart on May 12, 2009 at 11:37 am
Stewart.you donno any thing and always write some non sense..
its better u try to learn some thing and then comment
By kafeel on Jun 13, 2009 at 5:25 am
Kafeel – Your spelling and grammer are certainly pathetic. I have forgotten more about this subject that your pea brain could ever hold.
By Stewart on Jun 15, 2009 at 12:56 pm
oh really.i give a s***…..
By kafeel on Jun 18, 2009 at 5:01 am
If you want to know the subject! Especially religion and to get the required knowledge correctly without prejudice, Open you’re minded and heart.
By Peace on Sep 14, 2009 at 6:59 am
to all of relegion is definetly man made look at the way you all basing each other.relegion removes GOD and spiritualiy and war ,hatred replaces it.we all GOD’s children we will be on earth ,in the earth and if there is a heaven or hell we ”ll meet ther again ,so humankind please practise the only principle that is inherent to human LOVE
By no brainer on Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40 am
Stewart:
The first crusade was raised when 3000,000 Christians were massacred by Moslems outside of Jerusalem. Even then, Islam had already taken over parts of the Middle East–Syria, the Holy Land, Lebanon, the list goes on. zThere are still areas in many of these countries where a fair-sized Christian population exists. If these populations are now in deline, it is because radical Islam has taking over to the point that they fear they will be the next. At any rate, no Christian country has ever committed jihad.
By Mary on Oct 12, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Where are your sources?!
By thecriticiser on Nov 16, 2009 at 11:48 am