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Why Did Islam Spread So Quickly Dbq

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In 610 CE, Muhammad ibn Abdallah had been spoken to by an angel named Gabriel who had told him of God, who is Allah, the one true God. Muhammad went on, and started speaking the words of Allah to the people of Mecca, but many declined his speeches. Muhammad decided to leave Mecca and go to Medina, where he studied his new religion. Later, Islamic belief was born, and many had started following it. Many different ways Islam spread was through conquest, it was easy to follow, and trade.

During 610 CE, when Islamic belief started to spread conquest had been a major factor to its belief expanding. When the military was taking over the different territories they were also spreading their beliefs and converting the places they were taking. The military had started in Medina, and traveled in vast areas from there, from there they had spread their beliefs all over (Doc C). After the battle fought at al-Yarmuk many people had converted to Islamic belief. Allah had helped the Muslims, the Muslims had soon won the battle. After that, word had gotten spread that Allah had helped during the battle,this had intrigued many different people, and had and had gotten people interested in the religion (Doc E). …show more content…

In the Qur’an it states the rules of the religion. The rules are very simplistic, so that anyone can follow them. The Qur’an had said that if you do good, you will get good. The people were also told to value life, it also values property, and goodness leads to eternal paradise. The rules had been very intriguing, and had drawn people to their religion (Doc B). The government had wanted the people to maintain the religion, maintain order,enforce laws, to make sure justice would prevail, and to maintain superiority. The rules the government had made were very simplistic. So much so that anyone could follow them in their daily life, even in their daily tasks (Doc

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