Muslim Pilgrimage Advantages And Disadvantages

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In the early seventh century B.C.E., Islam began growing in the desert of Mecca, which is now Saudi Arabia. It developed from both Christian tradition and the values of Bedouin tribes of Arabia. Islam moved into areas controlled by the Byzantine Empire. By the mid-eighth century, Islam spread west into North Africa and Europe, and into Central Asia. With Islam being very strict in its single god or monotheistic religion, Islam was founded by Mohammed in Medina in 622 B.C.E. Mohammed later died in 632 B.C., in that time he had ruled the whole world of Arabia, in all aspects of the human way. That including political and through religion or ways of peoples’ lives. A lot of Muslims use their eating habits or dieting the same as Judaism that don …show more content…

For example, the pilgrimage is motivated by different factors in different places. Some pilgrim trips are made out of duty, whereas others are made in the hope of receiving special blessings or healing. It is important to distinguish between pilgrimage that is obligatory (as in modern Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca) and pilgrimage that is a voluntary act involving a vow or promise (such as early Christian sacred travel to Palestine or Rome). Obligatory pilgrimage inevitably involves larger numbers, guarantees the survival of the pilgrimage route and destinations, and has its own in-built dynamics to all the countries of Islam, and for one month every year the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia (with a resident population of around 150,000) has more visitors (over a million) than any other city in the world.
Accordingly, the rapid spread of Islam was the main influence to making Islam the hub of a series of important trade routes, including caravan trails leading from the Middle East through Central Asia to North China, and across the Sahara to the Sudan. A lot of Muslim traders were also effective missionaries, acting as multiple diffusion nuclei who travelled widely. Expansion diffusion accounts for the spread of Islam from its Arabian source area, and relocation diffusion accounts for its subsequent dispersal to Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa and the New

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