Muslim World Dbq

As of 2012, there were over 1.6 billion muslims around the world. The religion started from a prophet named Muhammad. An angel came to him and squeezed him so hard that words came out of his mouth saying, “Allah the one God.” Allah is the one God that Muslims believe in. The religion called Islam spread around the middle east quickly. It started in Mecca in 610 and took 120 years to completely spread. “Why did Islam spread so quickly?” Islam is a religion greatly influenced by trade, war, and rules.

During the Post-Classical Era, the leadership of Prophet Muhammad aided in the creation of the religion of Islam. Unlike any other religion, Islam spread exponentially through trade routes, appealing to the needy and conquest of new areas. As the religion began to gain massive coverage across Afro-Eurasia, it impacted the Post- Classical World both politically and culturally. During the Post-Classical Era, the spread of Islam led to significant political effects such as rise of caliphates, sultanates and empires that expanded to new areas. Furthermore, the spread of Islam had various cultural contributions such as spread of new traditions and arts.

The Islamic empire expanded in many different ways. One of the ways the Islamic Empire expanded is conquering land. In document A Islam killed the Greeks and conquered some of their land. This means that that the Greeks were taken over by Islam so Islam had more land than before. Another way the Islamic Empire expanded was they made a treaty with Tudmir. In document B “The slaves will not be killed or forced in any way but will be slaves.” This means that Islam had a truce with Tudmir. Islam will have a bigger civilization from getting more slaves/warriors from getting slaves from conquered

The rise of the Islamic religion and the growth of Islam’s territory happened rather quickly. During the life of their prophet and Islam’s originator, Muhammad, and interestly it even increased after his death, but how? Islam spread so fast after it was originated because of three things: trade, military conquest, and the appeal of its government.

Ibn Battuta’s 1331 journey to West Africa provides a contrast of two worlds: Battuta’s pre-modern Islamic culture conflicting with African societies’ interpretation of Muslim beliefs and tribal traditions. He is especially critical of the various roles of women he observes—thus, allowing us insight into his own judgments formed by his culture and society.

In the 7th century A.D., Islamic faith was charging through the Middle East. Many reasons are to credit for the rise of Islamic faith. However the muslims attacks on other nations, Islamic beliefs and trade were the key contributors into the rise of the Islamic religion. There army would lay waste to other nations.Also the Islamic beliefs were intriguing and the city of Mecca was in the middle of a bunch of trade routes which helped spread the religion.

Alternatively, while the teaching of the Quran promoted equality among men and women, Orthodox Islamic ideas and negative interpretations became the dominant view in Western society and colonists. “It was the practice of veiling and the Islamic degradation of women that stood in the way, according to the imperialist thesis, of the “progress” and “civilization” of Muslim societies and of their populaces being “persuaded or forced” into imbibing “the true spirit of Western Civilization” (Ahmed, 1992, p. 243). Many colonist men created a negative image of Islamic culture,

The people of Hims (the Syrians) felt that the Muslims were better rulers then the Byzantines. In Document F The Origins of the Islamic State “We like your rule and justice far better than the state of oppression and tyranny in which we were. The army of Heraclius we shall indeed … repulse from the city.” This is when the Hims broke off with the byzantines and decided to help the Muslims. Because of the Byzantines oppressive rule. In 1954 when the vietnam war broke out between the communist north and democratic south America stepped in. Just like the fight in the story The Origins of the Islamic the fight had three group. America was protecting the south just like the Muslims protected the Hims. They didn’t have the same ending the

This chapter begins with the Muhammad and the message he brings. It all began in the Arabian Peninsula, which was mostly desert. The people who lived there were called Nomadic Bedouin, and they are organized in family and clan groups. The importance of long-distance trade networks became important again between China, India, and Persia, Byzantium. The section starts talking about the early life Muhammad ibn Abdullah was born in to a Mecca merchant family in 570 C.E. He had a difficult life growing up, but in 595 C.E, he married a wealthy widow. By the time, he was thirty he became a merchant and exposed too many faiths. He had a spiritual transformation at the age of forty, and declared that there was only one true god, whose name was Allah, “the god.” His believe that Allah would soon bring judgment on the world, and the divine messenger, Gabriel, delivered these revelations to Muhammad. The Quran, also known as the “recitation,” is the holy book of Islam. Muhammad followers complied with his revelations. They had works of poetry and definitive authority on Islam;

While seemingly contradictory, the author’s ignorance of the politics in Egypt helped her learn much about how their society works. For the longest time, the author was unaware of the unrest in Egypt and did not pay attention to the world happening around her. Once she was on her own, she finally “sensed the growing tension between Western values and the currents of Islam” (118). She realized the values she held and the clothes she wore were not as accepted as she thought, thus she eventually began to feel the pressure of society. Another detail from this essay that exhibits the oppression of women is the way they are hidden in mosques during a service.

Using specific illustrations from Maryse Conde's novel Segu, this is an essay that discusses how the coming of Islam to Bambar society affected that people's traditional, political, social and economic practices as well as challenging the Bambaras' religious beliefs.

Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) travelled round the civilized world of his day. Surprisingly sufficiency for Eurocentric folks, the semester "civilized" nothing except included Spain at that time. It did, however, include most of the Islamic regions on earth, plus India and China. Dunn includes chapters on Tangier, North Africa, Egypt-Syria-Palestine, Mecca, Persia and Iraq, Yemen, Oman, and East Africa, Constantinople, Anatolia, Central Asia, India and the Maldives, China, Spain, and Mali---across the Sahara in West Africa. In each, he gives a portrait of the times in that particular place, what Ibn Battuta said he handsaw and what he must have seen or experienced except didn t mention. Dunn recounts many of the Moroccan s interesting adventures, from clon jailed in Delhi to trying as a umpire to forbid Maldivian women going topless in public. Dunn likewise places Ibn Battuta in a framework of a hemisphere-wide Islamic civilization and as an ambitious semi-scholar who was maybe not so well studied as he wanted clientele to believe. So, not nothing except is this Deuteronomy a record of Ibn Battuta s enthusiasm and voyages, it is a very interesting commentary on a big part of the world in the 14th century and the enthusiasm tale of a particular individual. If you like history, if you are interested in what was occurrence in the world beyond Europe in the days when "knights were bold" [and illiterate], read this book. It comes with

In this Essay, I will portray comparisons between the two reading literature (Byzantine women in the 8th to the 11th century written by Nadia el-Cheikh and Ibn Fadlan’s journey to Russia). The Essay will render the two different part of the arguments, Ibn Fadlan’s and the Arabo-Islamic sources on the one side and Cheikh’s responds, on the other side, to the 8th-11th century Arabic sources, including Ibn Fadlan’s journey’s narratives. I will be mainly focusing only on two parts, comparing between both suppositions on subjects “women and religion”. And portraying those debate points in two forms, one narrative as holding an exclusivist prejudice in discussing the other [Non-Muslim] ( in Ibn Fadlan’s and the Arabo-Islamic sources) and another one is (Cheikh's responses) as being more inclusive and more responsive to the reality.

This might explains that why, when Muslims were not cruel, threatening or terrorists, most of the time they were invisible in the stories that could have reasonably included them (qty Hijri 61).

Review of "Muslim Civilisation: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform" by M. Umer Chapra