The Birth of Islam: Muhammad and the Jews

In 610 CE, after years of tortuous oppression by the Byzantine Christians, the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula were living in relative safety as respected craftsmen, metal workers and jewelers. At the same time, in a cave near Mecca, Muhammed, the founder of Islam, claimed he had received revelatory visions. Visions that indirectly would impact Jewish life, for better and for worse, forever.