- According to French academic Maxime Rodinson, the number of
Muslims who left Mecca for Medina was as few as seventy people.
Mohammed, New York, 1971, p.144 (see also W. Montgomery Watt
Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman, Oxford, 1961, p.70). Before
“emigrating” to Medina, Mohammed had approximately seventy-five
followers in that settlement (see Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, trans.
Guillaume, London, 1955, p.203). The settlement was called Yathrib
before Mohammed created his Islamic State there, and afterwards the
name became “Medina” (which means “the city of the Prophet”). ↵
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