Rise Of Islam Research Paper

The start of Islam is marked in the years 610, following the first revelation to the prophet Muhammad at the age of 40. Muhammad and his followers spread the teachings of Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula. After that Muhammad returns to Mecca with a large number of his followers he enters the city peacefully and eventually all its citizens accept Islam. It spread very fast to other places with over 10,000 people. Soon after Muhammad died they needed a new leader and Umar a prominent companion of Muhammad, nominated Abu Bakr. Others added their support, and Abu Bakr was made the first caliph. Also after Muhammad's death in AD 632 . Muslim scholars developed a law code that was called Shari’ah. Shari’ah applies the teachings of the Quran to daily life. this began the build for the

By 725,most of spain had to become a Muslim state with its center at cordoba. In 732, however, Arab forces were defeated at the battle of Tours in Gaul (which is now france). Arab expansion in Europe had come to a halt. In 717 another Muslim force had launched an attack on Constantinople with the hope of defeating the Byzantine Empire. The byzantine survived, however, by destroying the muslim fleet. This created an uneasy frontier in southern Asia Minor between the byzantine Empire and the Islamic world. By 750, the arab advance had finally come to an end, but not before the southern Asia and eastern Mediterranean parts of the old roman Empire had been conquered. Arab power also extended to the east in Mesopotamia and Persia and northward into central Asia. The Umayyad dynasty at Damascus now ruled an enormous empire. Expansion had brought great wealth and new ethnic groups into the fold of islam, as well as contact with other civilizations. As a result, the new Arab Empire would be influenced by Byzantine and Persian cultures. Islam then then split into two