In 570 AD Saudi Arabia was suffering from the excessive violence of small clans. Muhammad was born into this culture of unnecessary violence lived his life as such. The Quran claims Muhammad was visited by Allah's angel Gabriel who called on Muhammad to do the bidding of Allah and preach his word to the middle east who at the time Was polytheistic. In the midst of disorder and chaos in the middle east Muhammad rapidly gained followers, creating not only the religion of Islam but gathered his followers and created an islamic army. As his religion grew so did his army and soon he had created a fair and powerful islamic empire that controlled much of the middle east. But soon after his death (632 AD) as always greed prevailed and their was a
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Wounded twice, he also twice experienced having his positions overrun by superior forces before he managed to turn the tables on his enemies and rally his men to victory”. Muhammad used his incredible skill on the battlefield to spread his empire. Muhammad was so successful that within a decade he was able to overturn Byzantine and Persian empires and councure Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Persia, and Egypt. In only 10 years muhammad went from nothing to defeating grand nations and concurring a significant part the middle east, but what made Muhammad different was his religious tolerance. The Quran states “O you who do not believe! I worship not what you worship, and you are not worshipping what I worship; nor am 1 worshipping what you worship; neither -art you worshipping what I worship. Therefore, to you your religion; and to me my religion!” (chap. 109). As Muhammad conquered the middle east the people who were involuntarily forced into a religious empire still had the right to practice their religion. So for the people under the islamic rule it was merely a transition of power that was of little importance to them, thus making Muhammad very popular among the …show more content…
When Ali became caliph in 656 AD, he was the first to believe that the empire should be passed down to Muhammad's relatives causing the first major conflicts between muslims at the time. The ‘Folio from a Rawdat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand’ depicts the significant battle of Camel marking the first conflict between two muslim empires. The battle of camel took place on november seventh 656 AD between the caliph Ali and Aisha one of Muhammad's wives. This battle is regarded as the first muslim civil war, the first ever conflict between the shias and the sunnis. Before the battle Ali's cousin Zubair famously said, "What a tragedy that the Muslims who had acquired the strength of a rock are going to be smashed by colliding with one another." Zubair was wright during the battle thousands of muslims fell to the hands of fellow muslims because Aisha couldn't stand Ali sit in her husband's throne. But this gruesome battle was not the end of the muslims conflict but merely the first of a never ending aggression between the shias and the sunnis. Perhaps the best demonstration of the political turmoil present in the middle east was Alis assassination, january twenty-seventh 661 AD, by Ibn Muljam. Ali was constantly harassed by the Syrian governor mayawesh until he agreed to discuss a shared caliph with mayawesh which angered Ali's own followers to the point of pioneering an
Wounded twice, he also twice experienced having his positions overrun by superior forces before he managed to turn the tables on his enemies and rally his men to victory”. Muhammad used his incredible skill on the battlefield to spread his empire. Muhammad was so successful that within a decade he was able to overturn Byzantine and Persian empires and councure Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Persia, and Egypt. In only 10 years muhammad went from nothing to defeating grand nations and concurring a significant part the middle east, but what made Muhammad different was his religious tolerance. The Quran states “O you who do not believe! I worship not what you worship, and you are not worshipping what I worship; nor am 1 worshipping what you worship; neither -art you worshipping what I worship. Therefore, to you your religion; and to me my religion!” (chap. 109). As Muhammad conquered the middle east the people who were involuntarily forced into a religious empire still had the right to practice their religion. So for the people under the islamic rule it was merely a transition of power that was of little importance to them, thus making Muhammad very popular among the …show more content…
When Ali became caliph in 656 AD, he was the first to believe that the empire should be passed down to Muhammad's relatives causing the first major conflicts between muslims at the time. The ‘Folio from a Rawdat al-safa (Garden of felicity) by Mirkhwand’ depicts the significant battle of Camel marking the first conflict between two muslim empires. The battle of camel took place on november seventh 656 AD between the caliph Ali and Aisha one of Muhammad's wives. This battle is regarded as the first muslim civil war, the first ever conflict between the shias and the sunnis. Before the battle Ali's cousin Zubair famously said, "What a tragedy that the Muslims who had acquired the strength of a rock are going to be smashed by colliding with one another." Zubair was wright during the battle thousands of muslims fell to the hands of fellow muslims because Aisha couldn't stand Ali sit in her husband's throne. But this gruesome battle was not the end of the muslims conflict but merely the first of a never ending aggression between the shias and the sunnis. Perhaps the best demonstration of the political turmoil present in the middle east was Alis assassination, january twenty-seventh 661 AD, by Ibn Muljam. Ali was constantly harassed by the Syrian governor mayawesh until he agreed to discuss a shared caliph with mayawesh which angered Ali's own followers to the point of pioneering an