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    THE ORIGINS OF ISLAM

        Islam was a religion founded in the 7th


    Century CE by Muhammad, an Arabian
    merchant from the city of Mecca.

    In the centuries leading up to the birth of


    Muhammad, Christianity had become the
    dominant faith of the Mediterranean.
    • At this time, Mecca was a prosperous city
    whose wealth and influence were based on
    the caravan trade and on the Kaaba, a shrine
    and a place of pilgrimage housing the pagan
    deities then being worshipped by the Arabs.
    • Islam was heavily influenced by the traditions
    of Christianity and Judaism. For example,
    Muhammad claimed that he was visited by an
    invisible angel called Gabriel, who passed on
    messages to him from God.
    • Abraham, Moses, and Jesus are all considered
    important prophets in Islam.
    In 613 CE, Muhammad began declaring that
    he was receiving messages from God, and
    that he was a prophet in the same line of
    prophets as Jesus and Moses. At first the
    Pagan Arabs were tolerant and even curious
    about this new "prophet", they had a genuine
    interest in the monotheistic beliefs of the
    Jews and Christians and were willing to make
    room for another religious belief system in
    their society.
    But when Muhammad began insulting the
    traditional Pagan deities as false Gods the Pagan
    Arabs ridiculed Muhammad in public, and some
    of the slaves that had begun to follow him were
    beaten by their Pagan masters.
    To escape this persecution, Muhammad and his
    followers fled from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE,
    where they were welcomed by the local Pagan
    and Jewish tribes there.
    Over the next few years Muhammad
    expanded his territorial control over the
    area to the north of Medina and waged
    war with a number of both Pagan and
    Jewish Arab tribes.
    Muhammad promised his followers eternal
    paradise in the afterlife if they fought for
    his cause
    In 630 CE, Muhammad conquered
    his home town of Mecca and over
    the next two years he sent his armies
    all over Western Arabia to conquer
    the remaining Pagan tribes. He
    demolished the Pagan temples of his
    defeated enemies and refused to
    accept their surrender until they
    agreed to convert to his new religion.
    The spread of Islam

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