Note 328 — Appendix A

In the treaty of Medina, which was made as early as the second year of the Hejira, the word Jihád is used, regarding which Sir W. Muir says:—"This word came subsequently to have exclusively the technical signification of Jihád or crusade or fighting for the Faith. If we give it this signification here, it would involve the clause in the suspicion of being a later addition; for as yet we have no distinct development of the intention of Mahomet to impose his religion on others by force: it would have been dangerous, in the present state of parties, to advance this principle. The word is sometimes used in the more general sense in the Coran; Sura XXIX, 5, 69; XX, 77, and a few other places."—Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. III, p. 32. Again he says with reference to Sura II, v. 215, which also contains the same word: "The word (Jihád) is the same as that subsequently used for a religious war, but it had not yet probably acquired its fixed application. It was applied in its general sense before the Hejira, and probably up to the battle of Badr."—Ibid, p. 74, footnote.