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World Service,01 Mar 2002,28 mins

Part One - Origins

History Of Islam

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‘It was money that spoke loudest in Mecca’. The story of the prophet Muhammad who was born in the trading town of Mecca around 570. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2002.

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