Marzia Saramad
Miss Kristin H artman
Miss Joanne Bretzer
History Researches
15/4/2014
What factors allowed the spread of Islam in Arabia Peninsula in past classical period?
Arabian Peninsula and Prophet Muhammad are two names which are inseparably linked. When we hear one, we will remember other .Muhammad was born in the Arabian Peninsula and grew up there and saw many difficulties there. He lost her father before ever seeing him then he lost his mother when he was about six and after that he lost his grandfather when he was a young child. After that his uncle Abu Talib was responsible for taking care of him. Because he Abu Talib was poor, Muhammad had to be a shepherd in the dry and burning deserts of Arabia. After he rose to prophet hood at age forty, he changed many things in the Arabia. Before Islam the situation of Arabians weren’t good. People lived in many tribes. The relations between tribes weren’t good. They had many wars and conflict. The situation for women was appalling and female infanticide was common. Women didn’t have any right to decide or do something and societies were patriarchal. Slavery and serfdom also were common. When Muhammad rose as prophet he changed many things. He removed slavery and serfdom, united the tribes and raised the status of women. He spread Islam in Arabia peninsula and other many places. The most important things that allowed the spread of Islam were unique teaching, religious law, trade (route), battle and conquests that happened at the time of Muhammad and after him (Hitti, Phillip K “The Arabs: a short history “Gateway Editions 1970 P30).
One attribute of Islam was unique teaching that attracted many people from many places. In some observations the Islam was the religion e Islam t...
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... of Mecca. In many wars and Conquest the Muslims were the victorious. These victors showed the power of Muslim to the other tribes and they accepted the Islam. Like these the Islam spread the area of for more victories and made bigger area for themselves.
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In this case, conquest is when people take over other people’s land and force people to convert to Islam. In the 7th and 8th centuries the Muslims had conquered land in Northern Africa and the Middle East. During that time, there were four caliphs. Muhammad’s second successor, Umar (one of the four caliphs), took over the north part of Jerusalem. He gave people three options during conquest and they were: Convert to Islam, pay very heavy taxes, or die (Outside Source: Spread of Islam Background Reading Packet). Another method of conquest was from military campaigns. The military campaigns had spread from all over Europe to Asia. The cities Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Cairo, Baghdad, and Saragossa had come under Muslim control between 622 CE and 750 CE (Doc C). For centuries because of the Ghazu raids, the Arabs have been adding to their inadequate resources, but Islam came to the rescue and put an end to the raids because the Ummah (Muslim Community) was not allowed to attack others. Then, the Arabs tried to attack on the richer lands further out of the peninsula (the Persian Empire and the Byzantium Empire) and wanted to attack to preserve the unity of the Ummah. The two empires facilitated (Facilitated/Facilitate: to make something easier) for the Arabs to attack because the empires have been fighting wars for so long, they became very tired (Doc D). In the year 636 CE, the Byzantine fought against the Muslims
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The town of Mecca was the birthplace of Islam, at first the leaders of the city refused the changing of this new religion and forced Muhammad to leave. Muhammad returned and preached to the people about what he had heard, that there is only one god. Islam spread quickly for two main reasons they are the message and military conquest.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, no one imagined that the next great world power would emerge from Saudi Arabia. Especially, because ancient empires thought that the land was worthless but they didn’t know that it had great trade routes. Trade brought them in connection with other civilizations and that’s how the city of Mecca, located in Saudi Arabia became known. The city of Mecca was a mix of religious beliefs, they used to worship many gods and had their own rituals. The world of Islam took place in Mecca where Muhammad was born in 570 CE. He became known as “the Prophet,” he was meant to be God’s final prophet. The main two groups of Islam are the Shia and Sunni; which they were created after Muhammad’s death. The Islam religion as
All these topics have one thing in common and that they say Islam spread quickly. In Trade routes this religion spreaded quickly for their trade routes. Military conquest is that they are kind and accepted by the Syrians. Political order is that their leader up-holded powers for the Muslims to practice faithfully and fairly.
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Islam, a religion of people submitting to one God, seeking peace and a way of life without sin, is always misunderstood throughout the world. What some consider act of bigotry, others believe it to be the lack of education and wrong portrayal of events in media; however, one cannot not justify the so little knowledge that America and Americans have about Islam and Muslims. Historically there are have been myths, many attacks on Islam and much confusion between Islam as a religion and Middle Easter culture that is always associated with it. This paper is meant to dispel, or rather educate about the big issues that plague people’s minds with false ideas and this will only be touching the surface.
Why and how did Islam spread so quickly? I will give three reasons to answer this question. One answer is because of the large trading happening, two is that muslims are protected by Islam, three is because of the religion Muhammad created was attractive to people.
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The prophet Muhammad had a significant impact on the rise and spread of the religion Islam. According to World Civilizations, Muhammad “began receiving revelations transmitted from Allah,” and later these revelations became holy scripts in the Quran. Muhammad started off with very few followers but as the faith of Allah started to spread, he gained more followers and he became a threat to Mecca’s rulers. As mentioned in World Civilization, “in 622 Muhammad left Mecca for Medina where his skilled leadership brought new followers.” In Medina, Muhammad became the religious authority in the area and he used this power to conquer Mecca, a holy place for Islamic believers. By the time of his death, he was able to have created a religious empire that controlled all of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Came, take away all the things, and forced people to convert, or tried to impress people with universal appeal – which one worked as power for Islam to spread? Throughout the history of world, religion played an important role for the development of mankind. Sometimes religion created impact on the gr The world had lots of religion, but none of them were sophisticated Some people used to follow animism, where the nature was worshipped. It showed that people thought that nature was source of power. Polytheism was common form of religion. People used to follow lots of Gods and Goddesses. Religion was one kind of source of fear, where the followers were forced to follow several customs. Islam created a great change in the areas where it spread. Through its views, Islam was successful to convince lots of people. In the postclassical period, Islam spread to Southeast Asia from the Arabian Peninsula. As a religion, Islam was widely accepted to huge numbers of people. The ideas of Islam were successful to create impact on people. Islam spread in the Southeast Asia through trade, Sufism, Islam’s universal appeal, and scientific innovation, though there were also challenges in the way of spreading Islam.
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