The Islamic religion was created by the prophet Muhammad and his revelations from Allah. He gained many followers because his teachings appealed to many different people. Islam continued to grow throughout many regions, uniting people and cultures. Because their geography was set in the midst of Eurasia, it gave them the ability conquer and spread ideas quickly. Muslims had a large tolerance of other cultures and they were able to advance scholarship to the highest level of that time. The result being achievements that have had a lasting impact on different cultures and the world. Due to their geographical location, Muslims made great achievements in science, commerce, and art during the post classical period, leading to the progression in …show more content…
The faithful … relied on mathematicians and astronomers to calculate the times for prayer and the direction of Mecca … Their attitude reflected a deep seated curiosity about the world and a quest for truth”. Because the Muslims had a chronic curiosity in knowledge, they not only preserved existing intelligence and extended it; they used this insight to better themselves in ways such as having skilled and capable scholars, mathematicians, and physicians. These people continued to build their wisdom and use it advance and perfect their occupations. Thus the start of knowledge being used to explore new ideas and flourish in the Islamic empire. For instance, the city of Cordova in Spain, was a center thriving with the spread of knowledge. In document 2, it reads, “Besides the university library, Arab statistics assure us the city boasted 37 libraries, numberless bookstores, 800 public schools”. Cordova was known as the jewel of the world, …show more content…
For example calligraphy was a beautiful art form and in document 6, calligraphy in the shape of a bird is seen as art. This intricate detailed art was used to reflect the glory of allah. Muslims are not allowed to put humans in their art so caligraphy was a way to express their love for allah respectfully. Calligraphy was used to add decoration to buildings and objects as well.This art form diffused into Europe and Asia becoming a popular style. Equally important was architexture, another way of self expression and art, which in turn was used to echo the greatness of allah. In document 7, it is a photograph depicting the Dome of the Rock’s beautiful architecture. Many Islamic mosques and buildings had beautiful domes and artwork on them. The architectural style used become very popular and expanded rapidly. The Muslim's need to show respect for allah became a beautiful way of self expression in art and architecture, since their style became very favored throughout the world, many of this type it is still admired
In 610 CE A man named Muhammad was outside of a cave meditating and soon began hearing voices. As he listened he heard them say “Give birth to a religion called Islam.” Islam began to spread faster than any other religion. Other religions disagreed with this because they didn’t want to believe that Islam was bigger and better than their religion. After about 140 years, many followers of Islam had created an empire that ruled the Middle East and spread across to North Africa to Europe.
KAILI HONG PER.3 THE ISLAMIC EXPANSION The early Islamic empire expanded in a couple of ways. One of the ways was the war. I found this evidence in document A where it says that the Muslims to fight gathered together to fight the Greeks. The Greeks would tie each others foots to each other so none of them would escape during the war.
Military conquest was a primary reason why Islam spread so quickly. As demonstrated in the “The Spread of Islam” map from Document C, the reader can clearly see that everywhere the Islamic World spread, a military campaign occured. A military campaign means plans for war or battle. Although it is possible, it is unlikely that the Islamic teachings just spread. Most likely, the teachings spread through a forced movement, or a military conquest.
The Islamic Empire expanded rapidly around the period 600 C.E. to 1300 C.E. The Islamic expansion occurred through military raids, Jihad, tolerance, stipends and taxes. After Muhammad's death, in 632 C.E., the rise Islam overtook Afro-Eurasia. Muslim warfare was set for defeat, but became matchless and unconquerable. The battle between the Muslims and Greeks, the Muslims were presented as having no match against Greeks military shown in Doc A. As it states, “In this battle 24,000 Muslims took part,” (Doc A).
Muhammad had a strange visit to the caves by mount Hira. He came back and reported the news to his family saying that Gabriel told him that Allah was one God, and that he was sent from God to give him this message. In 610 CE, in Mecca (Arabia), Islam spread quickly because of the impact the trade routes had on them, the importance of the Qur’an, and the five pillars. To begin with, the trade routes played a very important role in the spreading of Islam. In the middle of the sixth century, Mecca was prosperous and important.
Muhammad, the final messenger of God, and his followers spread the message of Allah to the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula in 610 CE. Surprisingly, Muhammad was pretty popular and his word, Islam, spread rather quickly because of Trade routes in the peninsula, the Muslims military conquest, and treaties and toleration. Out of all of those three main reasons why Islam spread fast, Treaties and Taxation was the most important. The treaties and toleration that the Muslims assembled were the main reason why people either stayed in the Islam religion and others transferred and started practicing Islam.
the house of wisdom, scholars...worked translating texts. " This impacted the world because if the scholars didn't translate the texts, they would be lost or not understandable. Overall without Muslims dedicating so much time into learning,
The Islam religion, believed by Muslims, has spread across the globe at rapid speeds. Muhammad ibn Abdullah started the religion. The religion began in Mecca. The religion was made known in 610 CE. The two major themes of the religion are “Allah is the one God” and the importance of charity.
How curious are you? Curious enough to go out in the modern world and seek educational, religious, or architectural knowledge? Muslims made a well representation of how curiosity can lead to affecting other societies besides their own in a positive way. Dating back to the first century, the Islamic culture was known for having conquered many places around the world and for advancing in scholarship in areas of the highest level at the time. Achievements included: astronomical discoveries, highly advanced architectural structures, a highly advanced educational city in Spain (Cordova), key discoveries in the medical world, a sophisticated trade route, and even created some artistical phenomenons such as the Dome of the Rock.
The Abbasid Dynasty: The Golden Age of Islamic Civilization Because of a few exceptionally competent caliphs and their guides, the Abbasid Caliphate flourished through the early ninth century, notwithstanding the significant difficulties of decision an enormous and multiethnic domain. Al-Ma'mun embraced the radical Mu'tazili religious philosophy, which was impacted by Greek logic and held that God could be seen through reasonable request, and that conviction and practice ought to be liable to reason. He built the mihna, a probe in which the adherence of researchers and authorities to Mu'tazili philosophy was tried, and they could be detained or even murdered in the event that they didn't take after the religious philosophy.
Including this, 1,001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization states on page 77 that Al-Khindi wrote the book Treatise on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages, which was the beginning of modern
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries” was said by A.A. Milne. The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was where learning, surprising discoveries, important, and influential Muslim innovations that changed and affect the world today, including in astronomy, medicine, and healthcare, were achieved! Some may say that architecture was an important contribution from the Muslim civilization because without it we wouldn’t know how to make or build the houses we live in today.
Muhammad refers to the people of the book, as in the people of the bible such as those in Spain believing in Christianity. By maintaining peace between these other religions, citizens of other faiths willingly contributed to the Islamic empire. They participated in the community like citizens of the Islamic faith, sharing ideas and partaking in trade. The religion was able to expand with the conversion of people from other religions, but more importantly the accepting nature of this religion made other Islamic innovations
Islam is the second biggest religion and fastest growing in the world today. Islam is a religion that Muslims follow and is a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the prophet of Allah. For Muslims, Muhammad is the last prophet and Abraham is the patriarch of the Qur’an, Bible and Torah. Islam is followed by over a billion people and Muslims make up approximately one quarter of the world’s population. Islam spread quickly during the 600’s trade, choice, and conquest.
1.1. Inspiration in Islam In this section we will contrast the position of how the Muslim understands the way the Qur'an was written. In Islam, the Holy Qur'an (HQ) comes only through the intermediary of the Angel Gabriel (alleged) who came down from God through the seven levels of heaven to that interface between the unseen world and the earth (at one place in HQ called the lote tree [HQ 53:14]) to deliver the message to Muhammad. Muslims say that there is no blend of human and divine authorship in the Qur'an; God is the sole author of the Qur'an and that it contains no human composition at all.