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During the Meccan period, some early converts to Islam were killed solely because of their belief and religious orientation (Ibn al-Ath¯ır 1970, VII/152; Ibn Sa'd 2001, III/176–88). How Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslims responded to this gradually in- creasing harassment and ...