Spread Of Islam Research Paper

Yusef Ahmed | Core 2/3

Muhammad had a long life with a series of events that contributed to making the religion of Islam. He was a prophet and spread the message of Allah which he had been called to prophethood. However Muhammad was not born the prophet we know and one of the most important people in the making of the message of Islam. He went through his early life, his call to prophethood, growing Islam in Makkah, taking over Makkah, and spreading his legacy throughout the Islamic Empire creating a well known religion known as Islam.

Muhammad was born in 570 to a poor trading clan in Makkah, a trading city that had very wealthy merchants yet very poor people. Muhammad was a young boy when his mother died and became an orphan. After his mother died, he lived with his uncle and his grandfather. When he was 12 years old, his uncle taught him to be a trader by letting him accompany him on a trading journey. He was married to a widow named Khadijah at the age of 25 who was also part of a trading clan. They had many children but only had one who continued the bloodline of Muhammad. A girl named Fatima.

In Muhammad's later life, he used to pray in the caves

The Umayyads thought they should choose the 4rth caliph. However after Ali became the 4th caliph it started a civil war inside the Muslim Empire. Later it was resolved by a negotiation by Ali. Soon after Ali’s death, Mu‘awiyah, the leader of the Umayyads claimed the caliphate. Most Muslims, called Sunnis came to accept him as caliph. Others called Shi’a thought that only people related to Muhammad could be caliph. This led to the split between the Sunnis and Shi’a. After this Mu‘awiyah took control and he spread the Islamic lands from Spain to India over 100 years and unified the Islamic Empire and spreading the religion of Islam across the