Mohammad, the chosen messenger of God, spread Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula. At first, he received little support for the emerging monotheistic religion in Mecca, his hometown. Mohammad then set out on a journey to Medina, which later became known as the Hijra. While in Medina, his ideas were welcomed and supporters began to follow him. The magnitude of followers eventually prompted the religion to develop into one of the five major world religions. Due to the immense amount of conquest, conversion, and Muslim’s respect for other monotheistic religions, Islamic ideas grew rapidly which formed an extensive empire throughout the Middle East. Conquest—a method of invasion involving force in order to gain control over more territory—was …show more content…
This increased the spread of Islamic ideas, causing the empire to expand through their religion. As referred to in document one and two, those conquered were required to convert to Islamic practices, otherwise they would face severe punishment. Punishments varied from required tributes to death, but were often severe. Although the punishments were cruel, they were effective as they increased the number of followers in their religion; furthermore, promoting Islamic ideas throughout the Arabian Peninsula. As mentioned previously, exceptions to this rule existed for Christians and Jews since these are monotheistic religions. Document five refers to this and offers the alternative of paying tribute to the empire rather than converting. Though this does not assist with the spread of Islamic ideas, the population of the empire increases, causing the empire to grow physically. Overall, the conversion regulations greatly increased the growth of the Islamic empire. Islam—a monotheistic religion—had little tolerance for other religions, specifically those with polytheistic beliefs, within their empire. An exception to this is other monotheistic religions such as Judaism and Christianity. As said in document five, these two groups were respected by Mohammad and not forced into conversion. A caveat to this is that Christians and Jews were required to pay a tribute, which partially funded the expansion of Islam economically—while also increasing the empire's population. On the other hand, document six contrasts this evidence. The document claims that Islam was never persecuted in order to expand, but Christian’s were persecuted in order to expand. This document portrays Christianity in a negative way, while document five portrays Christianity in a more neutral way. Part of this could be due to the fact that the author of document six—Syed Ameer—practices Islam. This
In 610 CE, Muhammad, a merchant trader from Mecca (Mecca is also a site of a yearly pilgrimage where Muslims come to perform a rituals at the sacred Ka’ba a.k.a. the holy shrine of Mecca), made one of his frequent visits to a cave by Mount Hira. On his way to the cave, he decided to pray because of all the different causes that made him feel like he was losing his way. During this visit to Mount Hira, the Archangel Gabriel squeezed Muhammad hard forcing the words “Allah is one God” continuously coming out of his mouth. After having these words come out of his mouth for about two years, Muhammad decided that it was the time to encourage others to quote
Islam is a very large and influential religion, it all originated from one man named Muhammad spreading his beliefs to the people of Mecca, and now it has become the second largest religion in the world. How did this come to be? How did a religion that started with one man spread so quickly? methods , purposeful or not, were used. There are a few methods that appeared to be most effective, and those methods can be classified under two categories. Islam expanded from forceful ways such as government laws and military conquest, and from peaceful ways like the religion being a reasonable jump for other religions and Islam being an easily acceptable religion.
The Muslim Empire began to expand vastly under the Umayyads, with the empire becoming so large many people were converting to Islam religion. The Umayyads were the second of the four major caliphates after the death of Muhammad. The Empire used many different ways to spread the Islamic civilization consisting of war, classes, and appeal. The Islamic civilization spread so strongly because of the way it allured the common man.
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.
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
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.
The widely popular religion of Islam originated in circa. 600 CE in the Arabian Peninsula with clan identity being the staple aspect of society. The rise and spread of Islam originating in 610 CE introduced many changes in the religious, cultural, political and social aspect of everyday life such as the introduction of a new monotheistic religion with equality as its backbone, the five pillars of Islam to provide unity, establishing the concept of a caliphate, and the forming of harems, respectively. The Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula dominated the pre-Islamic world with kin-related clan groups and a political structure of a tribal leader, Shaykhs. Cities eventually developed in Southern and Western Arabia due to the transcontinental trade
Islam is a major world religion. Its origin can be traced back to 610 CE in Arabia. The basis of this religion is the revelations to the prophet Mohammad. Dissatisfied with his life, he traveled to deserts, hills, and the wilderness surrounding Mecca, where he lived, to meditate and reflect. He became a new man through his revelations, which many of his followers believe Allah transmitted to him through his angel Gabriel. Islam was originally an Arab religion, but many different beliefs and practices were added to it, making it extremely popular and aiding in its rapid spread. This new religion spread to many different areas surrounding Arabia, both under Mohammad and after his death. The Muslim Empire grew to encompass Spain and the Eastern Roman Empire as well Persia and Africa. Many different practices and methods were used to spread Islam. The religion itself was appealing to, in addition to the inhabitants of Arabia, other people in the surrounding areas because of its distinct religious beliefs and practices, such as the five pillars, as well as the humility and prayerfulness of the Islamic people. They fought cruel, vicious wars with their enemies. Many different things motivated the warriors to expand, but above all, the riches they would gain from the people of the Fertile Crescent encouraged them to expand.
The world you once knew is falling to ashes and food is become such a scarcity that people are fighting over a few pieces of bread. The political class is too busy fighting among themselves to care for anyone else. Children are roaming the streets and begging for work to feed their dying, hungry stomachs. This is not a scene from a horror movie, but rather the reality of the beginning of post classical era. In these times of hardship the people turned to a higher power, which resulted in a religious boom. The main religion during the post classical era that had the greatest impact on people was Islam due to Muhammad, trade routes, the Black Plague, conquests and Islamic culture.
Islam first emerged in the Arabian Peninsula. The word Islam means “universal submission to God.” There were several reasons for the rapid and successful spread of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. The first cause of the successful spread of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula was Muhammad's ability to inspire almost unlimited devotion in persons with whom he came in close contact. The second cause of the rapid spread of Islam was the shallowness and the inadequacy of the paganism of the Arabs, who indeed attached but little importance to their old religion. The third reason for the rapid spread of Islam in Arabia was after the Apostasy, all the tribes accepted Islam and the former conflict between religion and tribal loyalty disappeared. The fourth reason was that as soon as the war commenced against Byzantium and Persia, all the objections against Islam disappeared. The fifth reason for the rapid spread of Islam in Arabia was that after Muhammad’s death, there was nothing that succeeded like his success. The sixth reason for the rapid success of Islam in Arabia was its perfect suitability to the people and the age. It was essentially an Arabic religion. The Qur’an was revealed in Arabic, which the Arabs thought to be the language used by God (Glubb 381-384).
... 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.
The word Islam means submission; it is considered a straight path to god. Since Islam began in the 17th century. Islam has spread to every corner of the globe.
Islam was a religion introduced in 570 when Muhammad was born. Islam became fairly popular in its time as Hims weren't hesitant to convert to Islam. Much of Islam's success as a new religion came from them establishing a very just society as well as the Muslims always strategically conquering new land.
Abraham stem three religions called Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Islam is a major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century ce. The Arabic term Islam, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer accepts surrender to the will of Allah . Allah is viewed as the sole God—creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. The will of Allah, to which human beings must submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qur’an , which Allah revealed to his messenger, Muhammad.
The Islamic World emerged in Medieval Europe during the seventh and eighth centuries corresponding to the development of Latin Europe and Byzantium. The new religion was slowly absorbed at first, but eventually grew rapidly along with the vast expansion of the territory. It all started when Muhammad, a traveling sail man in the city of Mecca, became the last prophet of God's final and perfect revelation: the Qur'an. Angel Gabriel told Muhammad to recite the teachings in the Qur'an-written by God. This indicates that the Arabs are God's new chosen people.