Caliph

conversion, conversely, the conquest of those who stood against him, but immediately after delivering his farewell speech Muhammad died on June 8, 632 in Medina. Abu Bakr, who offered his daughter Ayesha to marry Muhammad, was appointed the first Caliph outside of Muhammad’s family, continued to spread Islam after Muhammad death. More than that, faith in God and a commitment to political consolidation, the merchant elite of Arabia helped spread Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula…

didn’t know that she was a trickster”. Also, this demonstrates the rot in the general administration since an unauthorized release of the criminal is uncalled for because the offenders continue committing crimes. Nevertheless, in Arabian night 709, caliph pardons Dalilah and Zainab and eventually offers them a job within his administration as a way of honoring deceased Dalilah’s husband (Burton…

Abd ar-Rahman, the Emir and eventual caliph of Spain at that time appointed Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut, who was a Jewish scholar, as first a court physician, and then an official minister and diplomat. Hasdai ibn Shaprut helped stop the fighting between the two smaller…

Just as Mohammad was both the secular and religious leader of the Ummah, so too was his successor or Caliph. This joining of both religious and secular authority is present in one of the earliest uses of Qu 'ranic text as propaganda. All religions proselytize, and in religions which have a central text the easiest way to proselytize is to expose an outsider…

and it was a major intellectual center during the Islamic Golden Age. Additionally, it was a key institution in the Translation Movement. During the Translation Movement, Greek classics were translated into Arabic. The House of Wisdom was founded by Caliph Harun al-Rashid and culminated under his son, al-Ma’mun. Another name for the House of Wisdom is, Bayt al-Hikma. The House of Wisdom is a combination of a library, academy, and translation center. Scholars of different cultures and beliefs…

just being exiled in a nice way because he fell in love with a beautiful woman engaged to a nobleman. The noblemen wasn't about to just allow Ahmad walk in and steal his woman. So this nobleman explains to his friend the Caliph that he needs him to get rid of Ahmad. So the Caliph sends Ahmad on a big mission as an ambassador, but really he is just getting exiled. All because of a woman can you believe that crazy if you ask me. Well so Ahmad goes on his big journey and he takes a friend…

Muhammad did not leave behind any son just daughters so the Islamic community chose his father-in-Law as “caliph”- temporary leader, of the Islamic community” (Spielvogel, 205) As time progresses issues once again arose about the caliph, soon enough a man by the name of Muawiya became in charge and would take no time at all on making his presence known. Muawiya not long after being named leader created the Umayyad dynasty…

Introduction Imam Taymiyya was at the receiving end of the animosity and skepticism of many of his contemporaries and thinkers who succeeded him. Despite this, the one thing that can unanimously be agreed on is that if nothing else Imam Taymiyya's political thought was indubitably powerful and potent. Imam Taymiyya lived in times that were tumultuous for Muslims as a result of the Mongol invasion and their brutal annihilation of Baghdad, followed by Hulagu Khan putting to death the final…

following the death of the Islamic prophetMuhammad in the year 632AD. A dispute over succession to Prophet Muhammed, as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein ibn Ali and his household were killed by the ruling Umayyad Caliph Yazid I, and the outcry for revenge divided the early Islamic community. The present demographic…

There are many disagreements have occurred between Romans and Persians and they keep fighting each other's. After a decade of war they both empires fall, and a new empire born from the ashes. The new empire was the first Muslim formed by the second caliph Omar. Omar was the very strategic guy. He took they…