Caliph

The Prophet Muhammad is undoubtedly one of the single most important figures in all of history. His messages as the Prophet of God created a new community of Believers that has morphed into the second largest religion in the world, and created one of the greatest states in history, the caliphate. However, since his death 1400 years ago, his followers have struggled to define exactly how Muhammad’s authority and teachings apply in their day and age (Donner xi). Was he a commanding military leader

of who should be the leader grew to the establishment of Shia, who supported Ali. Shia believed that Ali should have been the first caliph instead of Abu Bakr being the first. Shia came to the conclusion that Sunni falsified hadith and Abu angered Fatima, in which Fatima was part of Muhammad causing Shia to believe that he does not have right to become first caliph. As a result, that left

as they could. Although their main goal was the same, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, and the Abbasid caliphate went about this goal in separate ways. The different techniques used by each caliphate was dependent on the individual caliphs. The treatment of groups of peoples inside the empires also differed between the caliphates. The Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, and the Abbasid Caliphate each employed styles of rule unique to their empires. The Rashidun Caliphate was

were not many prominent events in the years since it was created. Eight events that have happened in the Muslim community are the first revelation, the Hijrah, the change in the direction of prayer, the taking of Mecca, Abu Bakr becoming the first caliph and his important few years of rule, and the rule of the Safavid Empire. The First Revelation happened on 17 Ramadan, 610 C.E.. Muhammad was fasting and praying in a cave at the peak of Mount Hira as was his custom for that time of year. On that

Muhammad and the four rightly guided caliphs and continues with the Umayyad dynasty which is the first dynasty of caliphs of the prophet Muhammad who are not descended of the prophet. The Umayyad dynasty began in the year (661 CE) after the period of the rightly guided caliphs and it is acknowledge to be an influential period in Islamic history. The founder of Umayyad dynasty is Mu 'awiya who had been the governor of Syria during the period of 3rd and 4 th caliphs and became the caliphate after the

In recent years, ISIS has been breaking out everywhere instilling fear into people all around the world. In recent events, they attacked Brussels, Istanbul and Paris killing a large amount of people. The major thing that we have to remember is to not fear the Islamic State. They only way we can defeat them is if we show no fear of them. Is it said to believe that many people like the Iraqi government’s discriminatory policies against Sunnis, Bashar al-Assad’s suppression of secular Syrian protesters

Mu’awiya, an administrator in Syria who challenged Ali on his handling of the death of Uthman. Mu’awiya felt like Ali did not do enough avenge the death of Uthman and felt like because of this, he did not deserve to be the caliph, so he decided to challenge him for the throne of caliph. During the battle, Ali’s men happened to have the upper hand in the majority of battle, which led to Mu’awiya strategically trying to negotiate with Ali. While Ali refused at first, believing their differences should be

The first part of Silverstein's answer on why Islam matters to westerners is to first know the story of Islam, its peoples and cultures, and the different institutions in it. He breaks the history of Islam into 4 main time eras in the book’s first chapter; 600-800 CE, 800-1100 CE, 1100-1500 CE, and 1500 to present. The first time frame shows how The existence of Islam "is all due to the events in the 600-800 period" (page 19). It is when the Prophet Muhammad, with his monotheistic message, established

Using Fukuyama’s three categories of institutions, one can compare Ottoman and French civilizations. The purpose of this paper is to look at strength’s and weakness of both civilizations in regards to the state, rule of law and accountability. Fukuyama is correct when he argues that a modern liberal democracy needs a state, rule of law and accountability. To begin with, a state is a centralized authority that holds military power on a selected territory. It is the armed forces that keep

Islam is a religion based on the Oneness of God (tawhid), who is identified by His Arabic name, Allah. Deepa Kumar starts off with the base the religion stands on, which is the belief that there is only one God. This belief stands as the one of the five fundamentals of Islam known as the five pillars. This pillars is known as the Shaha’dah, as a Muslim (a follower of Islam) testifies to the oneness of God by reciting “There is no god but God” followed by “Muhammad is the messenger of God” in Arabic