[21] Sura iv. 36.

[22] Sura xvii. 36.

[23] Sura ii. 257, delivered at Medîna.

[24] See The Spirit of Islâm, chapter on ‘Slavery.’

[25] See The Spirit of Islâm, chapter on the ‘Literary and Scientific Spirit of Islâm.’

[26] 29th August 570 A.C.

[27] Like Balâl, the first muezzin of Islâm, originally a negro slave.

[28] See The Spirit of Islâm, p. 24.

[29] About Mohammed’s marriages after the death of Khadîja, see The Spirit of Islâm, pp. 193-198.

[30] See The Spirit of Islâm, p. 52.