Mohammad Expels 600 Jews from Arabia They Resettle in the Land of Israel
The 7th Century saw the birth of Islam. Since Muhammad's claimed visitation by the angel Gabriel, circa 610 CE, he started to preach his revelations publicly from 613 CE onwards. His message quickly gained momentum and by the time of his death in 632 CE, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam.
In his book History of Palestine – The Last Two Thousand Years, Jacob De Haas writes:
"Proclaiming the sanctity of Arabia, Mohammad expels the Jews and the Christians and all other strangers from his holy land… Six hundred Jews from Kainukaa, in Arabia, resettled at Jericho and Adr’at (or Der’at). A year later, another band of Jewish refugees came from Badhir and added themselves to the population of Jericho.”
Green Dome Muhammad's tomb 1850 CE Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Proclaiming the sanctity of Arabia, Mohammad expels the Jews and the Christians and all other strangers from his holy land… Six hundred Jews from Kainukaa, in Arabia, resettled at Jericho and Adr’at (Der’at).
A year later, another band of Jewish refugees came from Badhir and added themselves to the population of Jericho.
From Jacob De Haas. History Of Palestine – The Last Two Thousand Years, p. 123, and S. Margoliouth, The Relations Between Arabs and Israelites Prior to the Rise of Islam, London, 1924, p. 82
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