Religion was the centre of enterest and buisness, wich caused fighting between the Arabian tribes it need a powerfull religious leader to put them under one banner,When Muhammed was about forty years old ,he reported that the angel Gabriel gave him a revelation from Allah-From that time until his death he claimed many more such revelation
In Mecca, where Muhammed preached tolerance ha faced opposition ,so he sent some of his followers to the Christians Ethiopia-then he nearby city of Yathrib wich was later called Madina , Finally he went to Yathrib himself , appearing to his followers as the great militant leader , on the historic day called the Hijra wich is celebrated all over the Muslim world as the birth of Islam and the bigining of the Muslim lunar year
During the following years Muhammed worked himself into a position of power by attacking and plundering rich caravans
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He grew in political and military power and the nearby tribes began to follow his teaching and accept his his leadership with a force of ten thousand men he was able to conquer Mecca
He died after a violent fever( from posinig food)
Muhamed,s messages dealt primarily with civil and religious rules for living .The religious ones include the rituals of repeating the creed (Shahadah) Prayers ( slalt) in Arabic 5 times a daily , giving alms to the needy brothers within thier faith ( Zakat) , fasting (Saum) during the entire lunar month of Ramadan , and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)
at least once in a lifetime
Muhamed also granted axclusive right of divorce to the husband ,and permitted polygamy.the taking of concubines and imposed the veil for hie women
He placed Muslims women in position of in inferiority
After Muhamed died the Arab tribes broke away until Muhameds successor fought them and united them again .The united muslem missionary soldiers marched out of the Arabian peninsula and defeated the declining empires of Persia ,Byzantium and Rome making a great ampire from Afganistan and Irane inthe east to Morocco and Spain in the west
The population of the area which had been nearly 90% Christians became more than 90% muslm,
and more than 4000 Churches were either deastroid or converted to mosques
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Another Islamic leader also called Othman ( A.D.1300), estabished the Ottoman Empire in Turkey This empire grew steadly until it controlled the Near East , most of North Africa and the Balkan states
conquering and forcing the religion of Islam upon peoples who had previously been subjucated by it, About the same time the great muslem Moghul Empire overran the northern part part of India . During this period Islam penetrated into the East India and as far as the southern part of Philippines
In the twentieth century Islam is proselytizing more people than other religion in Africa ,America and Europe
M osques have been established in the most large cities of Europe and Norht America not to intention the black muslim movement there
Now isalm is seeing strong growth stimulated by a vigorous Islamic literature programme wich includes criticism of the Christian believe
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Community pressure
Islam drive the community to keep an eye on its individuals,allowing no way of quitting
There is a real threat of being excommunicated ,tortured or even killed
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