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Posted : November 14, 2002
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Marriage to wives of men killed by Muslims, including the
murder of Jews
It was standard practice, and made
legal by Muhammad, to take as a “wife” in addition to
captives, the wives of men killed in battle (or executed).
On one occasion when Muhammad launched an attack on a Jewish
tribe he personally witnessed their beheading and then took
some of their widows to bed. Semitic scholar and historian
A.B. Davidson (a professor at New College, Edinburgh)
recorded one such instance:
“On one day he caused 800 Jews to be
beheaded in cold blood, himself standing by and watching the
butchery; and in the evening, to efface the unpleasant
impression from his mind, and give a more happy turn to his
ideas, he took home the wife of one of the murdered chiefs,
and added her to his harem.”
Source: A.B. Davidson, Biblical and
Literary Essays, ed. J.A. Peterson (London: Hodder &
Stroughton, 1902), p. 228.