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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Charter of Medina

Ghazaleh Faridzadeh

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
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June 2023

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Charter of Medina — Equality regardless of tribe or clan — Equality regardless of creed or belief — Islam — Equality — Tolerance

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The document known as the ‘Charter of Medina’ (‘ChoM’) refers to an alliance agreement between Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullah, the Prophet of Islam, his followers emigrated together with him from Mecca in 622 AD, and the residents of Yathrib, a city in Hejaz later known as Madīnatu’l-Munawwara (the Glowing City) or Madīnatu’n-Nabī (the City of the Prophet). The document was translated into German and commented on in 1889 by Julius Wellhausen, who divided the text into Articles and thereby made it accessible as well as attractive to Western scholars. Since then, the...
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