On the morning of Sunday 4/30/2023, a master thesis entitled (the military movements of the city-state during the era of the Prophet (PBUH) towards the Romans and their Arab allies from the Levant (an analytical study of Arabic narratives) was discussed in the Department of History in the College of Arts.
The thesis presented by the student, Mahmoud Khalaf Al-Bashir, included four chapters. The first chapter discussed the military movements until the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, the second chapter discussed the internationalization of the call and the means of the Prophet (PBUH) to Heraclius,the third chapter showed the military movements in the year (8 AH) and the fourth chapter focused on the military movements from the year 9 AH until the year 11 AH.
The thesis aims to identify the fact that the Prophet (PBUH) made military moves towards the Romans and Arabs of Levant with the aim of spreading the Islamic call.
The thesis concluded that most of these movements are only projections of subsequent movements after the Prophet (PBUH). There are indications that there is a codification that is not based on a historical fact in some of these movements, but was based on previous movements in its historical material. It seems that the historical narrative of those movements has occurred under two influences. The first is the pre-Islamic era, and its residues are difficult for the narrator to get rid of easily, and we found in the narrations actions similar to the movements of that era, such as revenge, the captivity of women, theft of herds of livestock, burning and mutilation, and the second is the era of Isla
