meccans in A Sentence

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    The Banu Hawazin were old enemies of the Meccans.

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    The Meccans and the Muslims closed a 10-year truce.

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    Muhammad's prestige grew after the surrender of the Meccans.

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    The Muslims ran after the Meccans and left the camp unprotected.

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    After a protracted siege and various skirmishes, the Meccans withdrew again.

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    The Meccans, although substantially outnumbering the Muslims, promptly broke and ran.

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    However, the Meccans' retreat was actually a manufactured manoeuvre that paid off.

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    As the battle heated up, the Meccans were forced to somewhat retreat.

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    The Meccans did not pursue the Muslims, instead, they marched back to Mecca declaring victory.

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    And if those[Meccans] who disbelieve had fought you, they would have turned their backs[in flight].

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    And if those(Meccans) who disbelieve were to fight you, they would certainly turn their backs(i.e., flee).

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    However, the Meccans did not capitalise on their advantage by invading Medina and returned to Mecca.

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    Younger Muslims argued that the Meccans were destroying crops, and huddling in the strongholds would destroy Muslim prestige.

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    The next morning, at the Muslim conference of war, a dispute arose over how best to repel the Meccans.

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    The Meccans were sternly adamant, the people of Taif had rejected Muhammad, and the mission was making a slow progress.

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    Watt conjectures that the Meccans at this point began to contemplate that conversion to Islam would be the most prudent option.

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    Muhammad ordered every man to light a fire so as to make the Meccans overestimate the size of the army.

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    Though outnumbered more than three to one, the Muslims won the battle, killing at least forty-five Meccans with fourteen Muslims dead.

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    Al-Zubayr was among those who returned to Mecca in 619 because they heard that the Meccans had converted to Islam.

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    Seeing that their strategy had actually worked, the Meccans cavalry forces went around the hill and re-appeared behind the pursuing archers.

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    With the help of Ali, Muhammad fooled the Meccans watching him, and secretly slipped away from the town with Abu Bakr.

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    The Meccans helped the Banu Bakr with weapons and, according to some sources, a few Meccans also took part in the fighting.

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    With the help of Ali, Muhammad fooled the Meccans who were watching him, and secretly slipped away from the town with Abu Bakr.

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    When they discovered that Muhammad lived, the Meccans did not return due to false information about new forces coming to his aid.

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    In accordance with the plan the armies began marching towards Medina, Meccans from the south(along the coast) and the others from the east.

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    In the ensuing months, the Meccans sent ambush parties to Medina while Muhammad led expeditions against tribes allied with Mecca and sent raiders onto a Meccan caravan.

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    Abdul Muttalib told the Meccans to seek refuge in the hills while he with some leading members of the Quraysh remained within the precincts of the Ka‘bah.

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    The hillside position had been a great advantage to the Muslim forces, and they had to be lured off their posts for the Meccans to turn the table over.

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    The Meccans had exerted their utmost strength to dislodge Muhammad from Medina, and this defeat caused them to lose their trade with Syria and much of their prestige with it.

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