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788: 1051:, returning to Mecca. Muhammad gathered a small expeditionary force of around 300 men to intercept the caravan. Abu Sufyan was informed of this plot by his spies, and he called for aid. In response, the Mushrikun dispatched an army of strong 1,000 men, led by Amr ibn Hisham. In the ensuing confrontation, Abu Sufyan, "by skillful and vigorous leadership eluded the Muslims", according to the historian 36: 744: 153: 958:, the focal point of the Mushrikite religious life that they feared Muhammad to overthrow. The leaders of the Mushrikun offered Muhammad admission into the inner circle of the local merchant community and an advantageous marriage in exchange for his abandonment of Islam, however Muhammad refused this offer. 937:
privately, mainly among his near relatives and close acquaintances. In 613, the Islamic prophet began preaching publicly, which invited vehement opposition from the wealthy and leading clans of the Mushrik, who feared the loss of their ancestral religion as well as their lucrative pilgrimage
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Following Amr ibn Hisham's death, Abu Sufyan was acknowledged the preeminent leader of the Mushrikun. The latter was exhorted to avenge the human and material losses suffered by them at Badr and vowed to conduct a retaliatory raid on Medina. Abu Sufyan formed an army of 3,000 men, led by
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In December 629 or January 630, the Muslims conquered Mecca and almost without bloodshed. Abu Sufyan, Ikrima, Safwan and Suhayl all converted to Islam and the Mushrikun ceased to exist.
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business. The sect harassed members of the nascent Muslim community, and often persecuted new converts. The Mushrik assassinated numerous early Muslims, with the most prominent being
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Following the defeat of the Mushrikun, the Muslims began to expand and conquer lands of the Christian Byzantines and the Zoroastrian Sasanians. This resulted in the
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Though the Muslims were largely outnumbered, they nevertheless defeated the Mushrik's forces and managed to kill Amr. Among other Mushrik casualties were
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As his followers increased, Muhammad might have become a threat to the Mushrik rulers of the city, whose wealth rested largely upon the
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After Muhammad's declaration of prophethood, the Mushrikun harassed members of the nascent Muslim community and were led by
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In December 626, Abu Sufyan led the attempted siege of Medina, but was defeated by the Muslim defenders at the
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Following the Muslim conquest of Mecca, the Muslims fought the Mushrikun of the Qays and gained a victory.
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respectively. Subsequently, Abu Sufyan inflicted significant losses on the Muslims at the
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in 625, but the Mushrik were generally unsatisfied with the battle's results.
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In 616, the Mushrik started a public, social and economical boycott of the
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in the early 7th century. Their leaders were mostly from the
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7th-century Arab polytheists who fought early Muslims
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