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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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