Islam: Empire Of Faith

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Michala Wood

Islam:Empire of faith This movie Islam:Empire of faith was broke up into several parts. First Islam/Koran then Muslims, Muhammad, buildings. The things they did for us and made up in the past like math,engineering, astronomy, medicine, paper & publishing. Saladin, Mehmet, Suleyman where very important in this movie. What was good about the film was it went into great detail and explained everything out well. Also it had beautiful pictures. We learned that the religious faith of Islam, as it was practiced between about 650 and 1500 AD, was closely related to Judaism and Christianity. It effected the Muslims because they had a new religion and had to pray five times a day. Pay a yearly tax to help the poor and hungry. For

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