I'm reading Karen Armstrong's Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet.
I think she puts too much modern spin on the ball.
At one point, Muhammad, who has fled Mecca, is planning a raid - a ghazu - on some Meccan caravans that are traveling through the desert.
Armstrong writes on page 169: "The ghazu had been a rough and ready way of securing a fair circulation of the available wealth during the nomadic period."
Caravan raids - about fairness?
It boggles my awareness.
Muhammad's notable enough
Without this sugar-coated stuff.
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