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Muhammad ibn Abdullah, founder of Islam and God’s messenger, would become known as a Prophet. Although he was extremely successful in expressing his message, the conditions to which Muhammad was born into may not be considered conducive for a young boy to thrive. In other words, the environment placed upon Muhammad was unable to repress him, and perhaps influenced him to become the most influential person in Islamic history, or the second largest religion today. The prophet was born in 570 in Central Arabia in an area marked by tribal warfare. Before the development of Islam, Arabian society and religion were tribal in structure and organization (Esposito, 193). They lived in extended families, several families created a clan, and several

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