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NOTES
                                                          
1. For a sense of what Mecca was like in those days, see The March of Islam,
Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1988, pp. 22-23.
2. This account of the life of Mohammed and the  development of Islam is based on
the following sources: Sarwat Saulat, The Life of The Prophet, Islamic Publications
Ltd., Lahore, Pakistan, 1983.  William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Waldman,
The Islamic World, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983.    H.G. Wells, The
Outline of History, Macmillan, New York, 1926.  J.M. Roberts, The Pelican History
of the World, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1980.  Edward
Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin Classics, New York,
1985, p. 652.
3.  St. Paul's epiphany on the road to Damascus has also been attributed to
epilepsy.
4. Tim Newark, The Barbarians: Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages, Blandford
Press, London, 1985, p. 86.
5. The sieges of Vienna began in 1529 under a second wave of Islamic
empire-builders, the Turks.  See Stanford J. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire
and Modern Turkey; Volume I: Empire of the Gazis; The Rise and Decline of The
Ottoman Empire 1280-1808; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976, p. 94.
6. Roland H. Bainton, Christianity,   pp. 17-27.
7. Sources for this interpretation of Christianity's beginnings include: The New
English Bible: New Testament, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University
Press, 1961; Charles Guignebert, Jesus, Knopf, New York, 1935; Joseph Klausner,
The Messianic Idea in Israel, trans. W.F. Stinespring, Macmillan, New York, 1955;
Edgar J. Goodspeed, Introduction to the New Testament, University of Chicago
Press, 1937; and Roland H. Bainton, Christianity.
8. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin edition, p.
276.
9. Roland H. Bainton, Christianity, pp. 39, 47.  Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and
Christians, pp. 266-267.
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