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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to the following publishers for permission to quote from the books listed: Princeton University Press, History Remembered, Recovered and Invented by Bernard Lewis; Columbia University Press, A Social and Religious History of the Jews by Salo Wittmayer Baron; Oxford University Press, Muhammad at Medina and Muhammad at Mecca by W. Montgomery Watt; Ihe Life of Muhammad and The Traditi01is of Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Hadith Literature by A. Guillaume; University of California Press, A Mediterranean Society by S. D. Goitein; Schocken Books Inc. , Jews and Arabs by S. D. Goitein; Charles Scribner's Sons, The Shaping of the Jewish History by Ellis Rivkin; Heinemann Educational Books, The Critical Historian by G. Kitson Clarke ; The Marlin Press Ltd. , History and Social Theory by Gordon Leff; Pantheon Books, a division of Random House Inc. , and Allen Lane, Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd. , Mohammed by Maxime Rodinson, translated by Anne Carter; Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. Defy and Endure by Eversley Belfield; Simon & Schuster Inc. , Allah's Commonwealth by F. E. Peters and E. J. Brill, Encyclopaedia of Islam. I am also grateful to the Editors of Muslim World, Islamic Culture, International Social Science Journal (Unesco) and Bulletin of John Rey/ands Library for permission to quote from their journals. The prologue has been taken from Bernard Lewis' History Remembered, Recovered and Invented, pp 54-55 and the Epilogue from Ellis Rivkin's The Shaping of the Jewish History, pp 106-107 and 118- 119. The opening quotations of the various chapters have been taken from the following books: Chapter I, Sol Wittmayer Baron's A Social and Religious History of the Je ws, Vol. III p. 65; Chapter II, F. E. Peter's Allah's Commonwealth, p. 63, Chapter III and V. Maxime Rodinson's Mohammed, p. 160 and p. 214; Chapter IV, Kitson Clarke's The Critical Historian, p. 51 and Chapter VI, Arnold J. Toynbee's Greek Historical Thought, p. 103. (viii)