The Meccan life of Holy prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon him)

Mecca, the city where Islam was founded, was the meeting point of three large trading routes that lead to the Silk Road(Doc A). When these traders went through this town they saw wealth and prosperity. They took note of the religion and spread the word of the town. It wasn’t long before the whole Arabian Peninsula had heard about the religion. This helped unify the Arabian peninsula which let the next factor of military conquest even take place.

Born in 570 in the whole city of Mecca, Muhammad was born to a wealthy and influential family. Orphaned at the age of six he struggled through life until the age of 40 he began hearing voices in Arabic. These voices would guide him for the next 22 years making him the founder of Islam. Muhammad documented what he heard and his writing became the holy book known today as the Quran. This religion spread quickly, from Africa to Spain. Today it is the second largest religion in the world with 1.6 billion Muslims.

Starting their empire in 750 C.E., the Abbasids were certain to leave a major impact on the Arab world. The Abbasids had moved the empire’s capital to Baghdad, from Damascus, after gaining control. The empire had spanned across three continents and was drenched with many open ideas, as the empire had been widely involved in trade. Being spanned over such a vast array of land, the Abbasids had many ideas in front of them, and they were capable of drawing out the best of those from the areas in which they had conquered. These ideas were not even from extensive trade routes that they had carved out themselves, but they had just used the ones that were established by the Persians, before the Umayyad Dynasty had taken them over. Through somewhat minimal work, this empire was capable

Before the prophet Muhammad cultivated the religion of Islam, Arabia was a center of trade. Being the home of various clans and tribes, there would be feuds along the Arabian Peninsula over their opposing beliefs. Along with the blood feuds among the nomadic tribes, there was also village-based agriculture which benefited flourishing small kingdoms. Being located in the crossing point for many trade routes, Arabia also gave rise to many cosmopolitan cities. Arabia before Muhammad differs, from Arabia after Muhammad’s discoveries because of the decrease in battles around neighboring people. When Islam was made present, it unified the Afro-Eurasian world which caused the world to be more peaceful and rose the social standing of Arabia.

The “Post-Classical Period,” was a time of change, expansion, and vast cultural diffusion. The Islamic civilization is a group that emerged from the Semitic groups of southwestern Asia, and moved to the Arabian peninsula in tribes, known as the Bedouin tribes, due to lack of water and food. The Islamic Civilization encountered the cultures of the Europeans, Asians and Africans, and connected into these civilizations because of the spread of the Muslim religion. The Bedouin Arabs intensified cultural diffusion also through trade, migration, and warfare. The movement of the Islamic culture resulted in the

For five weeks in 1964 Malcolm X completed the Hajj, a mandatory Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. When he returned from this trip, Malcolm had a different outlook and preached not to just African-Americans but to muslims of all races. It changed Malcolm’s world view and gave him hope for a better future.

Before Muhammad was 6 his parents had passed and he was raised by his family members. By the time, he was 20 he began working as a merchant.Evidence to support this is Source#1, paragraph 4, sentence 1 and 4, states,”In his 20s, he began working as a merchant.”;”By the time he was 40, he began having religious visions that would change his life.” This shows that he began working as a merchant, and not long after, by the time he was 40 he began having vision that would impact his life. Evidence to support this is Source#1, paragraph 5, sentence 1 and 2, states,”While meditating in a cave on Mount Hira, Muhammad had a sudden vision.”;” He came to believe that he was called on by God to be a messenger and teacher of a new faith.” This shows that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have many differences, and similarities. Converts are non-jews and Jews convert or change their religion. Christians believe that God

From the days of the many deities of Arabian peninsula’s warmongering tribes, to the days of the Christian Crusades, religion has influenced the all of humanity’s cultures, politics, political maps and history. From the very early days of Arabia’s tribal culture, the religions gave each individual tribe a feeling of identity, that they felt separated from all of the other tribes. The shrines of these gods and goddesses were built and worshipped in settlements like the Kaaba in Mecca. The religions of the tribes drew all of them to that one specific city. When the tribes entered the city, they had to give up their weapons, which encouraged trading between the tribes, even if two tribes were in a conflict at the time. The religions of the tribes made Mecca a powerhouse because of

Muhammad was born in the year 570 A.D. in the city of Mecca, located now in what is known as Saudi Arabia. His father, Abdullah died before he was born and his mother, Amina passed away when Muhammad was around five or six years old. He was then brought up by his grandfather, ‘Abdul-Muttalib, who treated him with the utmost love. Two years passed before his grandfather also passed away and Muhammad was left in the care of his uncle, Abu Talib and his wife, Fatima. They treated him just as well if not better than their own children. The love they had for the young boy was matched by no one.

Upon his return to Mecca Khadijah was very, very pleased with the large amount of money that had been taken in and offered him her hand in marriage and he began his work for the poor (Hamidullah, par. 13).

The history of Islam began with the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad received his first revelation in Mecca in the year 610. The words of Allah were spoken to him in which later paved the creation of the Quran. During Muhammad’s early Mecca period, many

Once again women's status were lowered due to the Abbasids with the increase in size of the harem as well as the addition of veils. During that time there were more regional and transregional interaction between Eurasia. Silk roads and safe trade roads also developed during that time period which would eventually aid the merchants in the Arabian Peninsula with trade and selling goods, further increase their social

Taking this into consideration, we saw that Ahmed discussed how during Muhammad’s (pbuh) time, remarriage was often common and not frowned upon. All of Muhammad’s (pbuh) wives were married previously except for ‘Aisha. Also, the fact that Muhammad (pbuh) only had one concubine obviously in no way legitimizes the hundreds of concubines some Abbasid leaders had.

Muhammad now recognized as the most important person in the Islam religion, demonstrated diplomacy. Muhammad’s first followers became his family that stuck by his side, and obeyed his wishes. During the evolving of Muhammad’s teachings, he married eleven different women. “Muhammad’s marriages are often viewed in political terms. The early biographers state that Muhammad consummated marriage with at least eleven women in Medina, most of whom survived him” (Gordon 16-17). Marrying all these different women was nothing but strategy. His wives were from prominent political tribes, which meant that Muhammad was securing and creating political bonds between all of them. This was a very smart move on Muhammad’s part. By marrying all these different women, he had the power to influence the women of political power and move them toward the Islamic religion. This was mapped as the starting point for Islam and it eventually spread through the

The essay shall explore the concept of the jahiliyyah and demonstrate the importance and impact it has to understand the origins and development of Islam. The Jahiliyyah is a core and critical part of the foundations of Islam, that certain elements of the jahiliyyah were borrowed, adopted and developed; whilst other elements were discarded as Islam evolved. It is important as aspects of the jahiliyyah period continues to have an influence after the advent of Islam. Elements of the jahiliyyah such as the geographical location; the political, social and religious life; pre-islamic literature, rituals of the Ka 'ba and the role of Women have shaped the understanding of Islam.