The Rise Of Islamic Civilization

The world you once knew is falling to ashes and food is become such a scarcity that people are fighting over a few pieces of bread. The political class is too busy fighting among themselves to care for anyone else. Children are roaming the streets and begging for work to feed their dying, hungry stomachs. This is not a scene from a horror movie, but rather the reality of the beginning of post classical era. In these times of hardship the people turned to a higher power, which resulted in a religious boom. The main religion during the post classical era that had the greatest impact on people was Islam due to Muhammad, trade routes, the Black Plague, conquests and Islamic culture.

One of the main practices for Islamic people would be the Five Pillars of Islam. All Muslims must follow these five rules completely. The first pillar is Shahada, which is the profession of faith, and stats "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet." The second pillar is Salat, which means daily prayers. Muslims must pray at least five times a day while facing Mecca. The next pillar is Zakat, or alms-giving, in which Muslims believe that everyone should share their wealth with less fortunate people. The fourth pillar is Saum, which means Ramadan. The last pillar is Hajj, which means pilgrimage. All Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca as least once in their lifetime.

Islam is an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based around the text of the Quran. Followers of Islam believe that Muhammad is the last prophet of god. Islam has five pillars; (a) testimony of faith, (b) prayer, (c) Supporting the needy (d) fasting the month

Early Rome began like many other early civilizations. Sometime between 1,500 and 1,000 B.C.E. groups of warlike people, speaking a common language we refer to as Italic, began moving into the Italian peninsula from across the Adriatic Sean. One of these peoples was the Latins. By 800 B.C.E. the Latins established Seven Hills near the Tiber River. Around this same time the Etruscans moved into present day Italy. The Etruscans turned seven villages into the city of Rome ruled by a monarchy. 509 B.C.E. the Romans overthrew the Etruscan king replacing the monarchy with a republic, in which citizens elect representatives to govern.

From its beginnings in Arabia, till the time it reached its peak of power, the Islamic Empire was extremely proficient at expanding their influence. Islam reached from Spain to India and had a huge impact on people all across the known world. Their success in expansion was due their use of tactics and methods to assist them in spreading their control. The spread of Islam was so successful because their faith made them vicious warriors, and their ideas were attractive to other peoples, making it easy for them to assimilate to the Umma. The Islamic faith was successful in attracting new people to their way of life. They were also able to use their strong armies to their advantage as well as their image of fear to control many people. To help further expand their reach, the Muslims used tolerance to gain the interest of monotheists and other people in their religion.

Muslims base the way they live after a book called the Qur’an (“Religions:Islam”). The Muslim’s believe in only one God like Christians, but they call their God Allah. They say that the Islamic religion has always been around but to be accurate they said that they date their religion back from the time of Muhammad’s migration (“Religions:Islam”). The basic statement of the Islamic faith is, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.” They state that anyone who can’t recite this and commit to the religion are not considered a Muslim. The beliefs of the Muslim’s practice is called the five pillars, 1. Faith 2. Prayer 3. Alms 4. Pilgrimage 5. Fasting. Muslims believe you should pray five times a day, before sunrise, midday, late afternoon, at sunset, and between sunset and midnight. They believe you should not consume any alcohol or

For 140 years, foll0owers of Islam had created an empire that ruled the Middle East and stretched across North America into Europe. There’s many more interesting facts about Islam such as political orders, military conquest and how Islam spread so quickly.

In Europe during 1250-1350, the major technological advancement, firearms, was significant in influencing Europe’s rulers. Although created between the mid 13th and 14th century, firearms, such as cannons and muskets, weren’t fully developed to be efficient and reliable in warfare until the mid 1400’s. Due to an increase in firearms, rulers began to create centralized, fiscal-military states to finance their strategic shift to firearm bearing infantries (542,). Rulers also began to implement imperialism, extending a country’s power and influence through military force, which had been a dormant policy for decades. The reason for reverting was a result of developing commonwealths between the competing realms, consisting of the religious civilizations of Islam and Christianity. The people who led the expansion of Islamic rule, first over the Eastern Orthodox Christians and eventually over the Western, the Ottomans, frequently attempted to raise immense amounts of currency in silver and gold purely for the sake of obtains firepower in the hopes of world ruling. But as Abu- Lughod would reason, that was a long shot to begin with.

The Islamic Golden age provided the Abbasid Caliphate with an immense amount of political power and influence. The empire controlled lands from West Africa to parts of current day Iran and the new capital, Baghdad, quickly developed to into a large and advanced city . With control over previous Greek, Egyptian, and Persian lands, the locality of the empire set base for the academic, philosophical and medicinal advancement that define the Islamic Golden Age. Several schools of thought began setting up in Baghdad, such as Gundishapur which brought Greek medicine, science, and philosophy to the Islamic culture. Schools like these helped Islamic scholars to learn from these texts in order to build their own thoughts and treatises. The pursuit for academic advancement in fields of philosophy, technology, and medicine defines the Golden Age of Islam at it allowed a proliferation of scholars from different regions to study under one empire and one language. The size and stability of the Caliphate of the time proves their political and economic power, however the success of the society would not have amounted to its potential if it were not for the academic advances that flourished throughout this time period.

The Islam religion was founded in 610 CE by the prophet Muhammad, who was verbally presented the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, by God through the archangel, Gabriel. Muslim people consider the Quran as the principle source of faith and practice. After the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, Islam spread rapidly outwards from Mecca towards the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As the Islamic Empire grew, women became more restricted and their inferiority to men became more prominent. The empire continued to grow and reached its Golden Age beginning in 800 CE, where the importance of education and knowledge caused new advancements in technology and ideology throughout time until 1300. During the years of 600-1300, the Muslim community continued

Soon after Muhammad went back to Mecca and defeated the polytheists and converted the population of Mecca to Islam, and god rid of Arabian gods and made small cubical buildings that were called Ka’bah that was their temple where they would worship. When Muslims go on pilgrimages today, they go to the Ka’bah and circle around it and consider it the spiritual center of their world. Islam is the world second largest religion, and it stretches all the way to Europe, North Africa, South Asia, and Middle East. Islam has unbending teaching about their god and that there is one god, Allah. The Five Pillars of Islam is the fundamental principle of the faith of Islam and Islam is another word for submission and

The Muslim Civilization was very successful. They had very many inventions that shaped who we are today, such as the camera, clocks, surgery, and airplanes (yes - they were thinking about humans flying WAY before the Wright Brothers!).

The Islamic faith began with the call of one man. His name was Muhammad and in 610 A.D the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the city of Mecca. Gabriel told Muhammad that God had commissioned him to be his last prophet an event known as the Night of Power. From here Muhammad began preaching to peoples in an effort to fulfill his mission of summiting them fully to God. His call to monotheism and anti materialistic teachings was rejected in Mecca as the people were accustomed to the worship of many gods and based their lives around possession and sales of goods. Muhammad then moved north were his following grew and he eventually build and army of people seeking a more fulfilling lifestyle. He pinned this army against Mecca who submitted peacefully and the masses came to adopt Islam. As Muhammad's death came in 632 A.D. the majority of Arabia had come to accept Islamic beliefs and practices and all of his revelations were combined to construct Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an. But, Muhammad’s death was not

Islam is the belief of the teachings of Muhammad, who is believed to be the Messenger of God. Muhammad, the last prophet sent by God in 610 A.D, claimed to encounter an angelic visitation which is believed to be the beginning of Islam. Muhammad began preaching the words of Allah (the Arabic word for God) which was later compiled into the text of the Qur’an. The Qur’an did not originate with Muhammad, but contains many of Muhammad’s teachings he spread. The Qur’an contains the Muslim five pillars of Islam. These pillars include Testimony of Faith, Fasting, Charity (zakat), and Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) for those who are able (Enchassi). These five pillars of Islam are the framework to the Muslim beliefs.

The history of the Islamic religion begins in 610 C.E., with Muhammad ibn Abdallah, a merchant who every year during the month of Ramadan would “retire to a cave on the summit of Mount Hira, just outside Mecca in the Arabian Hijaz, where he prayed, fasted and gave alms to the poor.” This was a common practice for many Arabs in the peninsula. Muhammad was a merchant, a member of the tribe Quraysh which had become quite wealthy trading among bordering countries. The Quraysh were focused on accumulating more wealth but at the expense of the tribe’s poorer family groups, known as clans.