Social Studies 7 Per. 1 13 November‚ 2014 Islam’s Spreading Islam is a religion that only believed in one god and it wasn’t too common in that time period so they found a way by spreading Islam. There had to be someone who started the spread of Islam and his name was Prophet Muhammad. Prophet Muhammad is a man who was born in Makkah and was an orphan. He was a patient and generous man who wanted to spread his religion. The ways he spread his religion was by military conquest‚ trade routes‚ and political
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Islam spread so successfully because the Byzantine and Persian empires were weak and tired‚ so this made it easier for Muslims to conquer them. From Arabia‚ Islam spread northwards towards Persia and Baghdad in 640AD. In the east they overpowered Samarkand in 676AD and the Borders of India in 707AD. Towards the west Islam expanded into Morocco and Spain in 708AD. Simple but effective military tactics helped spread Islam because they were easy and not too complicated for the Muslims to carry
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Why Islam Spread So Quickly The main reasons of Islam spread so quickly in the 7th and 8th century are because of the Muslims were unified together at the time‚ and some nearby empires‚ such as Byzantine became weaker as a result of war and diseases‚ and also Muslims showed religious tolerance to the non-Muslim people. After Muhammad died in 632‚ Abu Bakr became the first caliph means the rightly guided. For the next two years‚ he applied the jihad in order to pacify the revolt in the Islam world
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Americans‚ Karen Armstrong uses her biography Muhammad to portray Islam as a religion that was created simply to seek social change in a problematic time period. One central theme of the book is that at the time when Islam was created‚ it was helpful‚ almost necessary to the people of 7th century Arabia‚ as their lives were undergoing a period of rapid change. In fact‚ one could even take away from Muhammad that the message of Islam could be appropriate in today’s society as well. In the early centuries
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Islam is the fastest growing religion‚ and it all started with an orphan boy that worked as a merchant trader‚ squeezed hard by the Angel Gabriel causing God’s words to flow through the boy’s mouth. And Prophet Muhammad of Islam was born. Islam originated from Mecca in 610 specifically in a cave near Mount Hira. Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of god‚ he would recite the words of Allah (God) in public‚ he traveled across the Middle east with his followers. After his death Islam had reached not
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a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion‚ and distorts both.”-John Cornyn In this time period there was two rulers Muhammad and Abu Bakr. Why did Islam spread so quickly Islam spread so quickly by war‚ religion‚ and rights. First off one reason why Islam spread so quickly is because of war. One piece of evidence why Islam spread so quickly by war is because they took over five cities in 189 years. According to doc. C the reason why Islam took over five cities
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Spread of Islam in North Africa The first influx of Muslims into Africa was during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad in which a group of citizens from Mecca fled to Ethiopia to escape prosecution. Islam swept across North Africa very early after the death of Muhammad‚ spreading from Egypt in the 7th century reaching all the way to the Atlantic by the 8th. The spread of Islam in North Africa is similar to the way Europeans colonized America in that it was a westward spread across the continent
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convert to Islam or join the Pact and continue practicing your own religion!” I overheard a soldier talking to the leader of my tribe. Would he convert to Islam or enter the Pact‚ pay the jizyah and stay a Christian? Part of the reason Islam spread so quickly was because the conquered people liked the Muslim beliefs and the way they ruled. (With consideration to other religions) Other reasons for the rapid spread of Islam were trade and Jihad. (religious war) Mecca was the birthplace of Islam; it was
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Islam is the second most largest religion because of its belief and the way it’s performed. Islam was created by Muhammad because of his preaches through the streets of Mecca during 610 A.D. People began to believe him and started practicing that religion. Throughout time they began to develop books which are now called the Sunnah‚ Qur’an‚ and the Ka’ba. Muhammad called his faith Islam which is how they got the name. Now the questions is‚ what were the main reasons why Islam spread so quickly throughout
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Did Islam Spread So Quickly? The Islamic religion spread incredibly fast from approximately 600 C.E. to 700 C.E. because the religion and its beliefs are appealing‚ the main worship center is also a huge trade center‚ and it has noble military campaigns. The founder of the religion‚ a man whose name was Muhammad‚ received word from a god named Allah. He began to preach Allah’s word to citizens in Mecca‚ and his preachings spread rapidly across the Middle East. One of the reasons Islam spread so
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