Ten Blessed Companions

Muhammad a prophet for our time is written by Karen Armstrong. This book is like a diary that tells the life of Muhammad and how he played a big role in the Islamic religion. Muhammad was born in the year 570 ce and died in 623 ce. Muhammad was a man who did not have much going for him, he couldn’t read and lived in a cave with his wife at the time. When Muhammad was reached down upon by Allah he did not know what was happening and why it was happening. “ he knew that some people expected the imminent arrival of an Arab prophet, but it never occurred to him that he would be the one entrusted with the mission.” (p.10). Muhammad was 40 years old when this happened and he lived in Mecca. Mecca at the time had many different civilizations and was a big trading center. Arabs at the time did not like this and kept moving from places to place to get something stable. Some of the Arabs even had settled in urban areas around Mecca. Society in Mecca was based on laws and traditions that even though Allah is the main god

Analyse the impact of Aisha bint Abu Bakr on the development and expression of Islam.

The decline of the Abbasids was not a steady of rapid series of events. There were numerous revivals of the Caliphate in which certain strong Caliphs gained more control and influence over the Islamic world than their predecessors had had. However at no point after the death of Harun al-Rahid (reigned 786-809) was the Caliphate ever as powerful. This period is regarded as the Golden Age of the Abbasid Caliphate and was followed immediately by civil war between his sons. Harun’s two sons were called Al-Amin and Al-Mamun. Al-Amin was the elder and was nominated as the heir to the Caliphate. However Al-Mamun, who was the effective governor of the eastern provinces was ambitious. He was spurred towards seizing the Caliphate for

At the age of 20 in 1946 he was sentenced to prison for larceny and breaking and entering. During his time in prison he joined the Nation of Islam and after being released in 1952 he became one of its leaders. He was the

W.E.B. Du Bois suggested in his early work that the talent-tenth would uplift the black race. He implied college trained black men and women were best equipped to transform black America’s position in the twentieth century.

The Islamic people had a very powerful culture. Muslims mastered many crafts and trade which helped them grow and prosper. Modern cultures have used and built onto many ideas that the Islamic people had implemented into their own lives. The Islamic people strived in science, philosophy, astronomy, geography, mathematics, and medicine. This DBQ will talk about his topic.

Sayyid Qutb had a seemingly minimal impact throughout his life, but his teachings and ideology have become of significant importance to the Islamic faith. However his views and thoughts of that are somewhat extreme have lead some followers to form organizations which are involved with radical, extreme and “terrorist” activities.

Chraibi’s book Muhammad: A Novel is a fantastic, powerful read because it is just that: a novel. It is a fictional story, but written by an author who had an unusual, mystical calling himself to write the book. By using original aspects from the traditional biographies of Muhammad and then adding his own personal, esoteric twist on these characteristics, Chraibi creates a work of literature that is truly compelling and shows Muhammad’s journey to becoming a prophet in a mystical light. Two central distinctions, namely Muhammad’s relations with Khadija and Bahira, add the spice in this novel that really help the reader grasp what is mystical about both this literature and most importantly, Muhammad himself.

Roy Mottahedeh is a Gruney Professor at Harvard University, where he teaches pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Middle East and is an expert on Iranian culture. Mottahedeh started his higher level education journey at Harvard College at which he studied history, he then received a bachelor’s degree in Persian and Arabic at Cambridge University. While teaching at Princeton University, Mottahedeh wrote his first book “Loyalty and Leadership in an early Islamic Society” in 1980, followed by the McArthur reward that allowed him to release “The Mantle of the Prophet” in 1985.

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;

The book that we have chosen to review is titled “Lost History, the Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists”. The author of the book is Michael Hamilton Morgan. The book was published in the year 2007 and also holds the same copyright date. The book is a non-fiction. The main subject matter of the book is the history of the Islamic civilization from the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

Islam refers to Prophet Muhammad as the founder of the religion. He was the son of Abdullah and Amina. In early history books of the subject, Prophet Muhammad lived an extraordinary life. In the book by Waqidi, ‘Book of Campaigns’, the author describes some of the military eminence that the prophet portrayed. According to him, he was a community leader and commander of the military (Ali, 79-113). He also married and lived a ‘normal’ life. However, after the death of K’hadija, he remarried other women but the effect of his wife remained in his heart forever (Ali, 114). His actions to

caliphs and it is acknowledge to be an influential period in Islamic history. The founder of

In 1686, Ihara Saikaku published a book named Five Women Who Loved Love and shares the stories of five different women whose desire for love were considered unorthodox. The five women who are featured in the novel are Onatsu, Osen, Osan, Oshichi, and Oman. These were average folks who were so adamant to find love and pleasure. Onatsu, who as a young sixteen-year-old was shrewd when it came to love; Osen, a married woman accused of betrayal to her husband; Osan, a Kyoto native with a beauty one could not resist found herself sleeping in the wrong bed with a man she loved; Oshichi, a brave woman who would do anything to find her one true samurai love; and lastly Oman, a woman who found it challenging to earn the affection from her lover after being surrounded by several handsome boys.

Khadija was fifteen years older than Muhammad. Muhammad accepted work from Khadija and had led a few caravans for her. Credit should be given to Khadija for Muhammad’s success with Islam because it was her wealth that enabled him to spend a significant amount of time in religious meditation and isolation. Even though she was some years older than her twenty-five-year-old employee and had been married twice, she asked him to marry her (Phipps, 35).