The_Spread_And_Expansion_Of_Islam

The Spread And Expansion Of Islam The Spread and Expansion of Islam The spread of Islam went forth with electrifying speed, the Muslim community expanded rapidly after the Prophet's death. Islam is not as some imagine in the West, a religion of the sword nor did it spread primarily by means of war. It was only within Arabia, where a crude form of idolatry was rampant, that Islam was propagated by warring against those tribes, which did not accept the message of God, whereas Christians and Jews were not forced to convert Within half a century of the Prophet's death, Islam had spread to three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe. Over the next few centuries, this Empire continued to expand and Islam gradually became the chosen faith of the majority of its inhabitants. Among the reasons, for the rapid and peaceful spread of Islam was the simplicity of its doctrine. Islam calls for faith in only One God worthy of worship. Islam also repeatedly instructs human beings to use their powers of intelligence and observation. As Muslim civilization developed, it absorbed the heritage of ancient civilizations like Egypt, Persia and Greece, whose learning was preserved in the libraries and with the scholars islam, spread, islamic, faith, africa, scholars, rule, muslims, muslim, later, god, embraced, civilization, berbers, ancient, works, within, whose, western, umayyad, prophet's, persia, north, learning, languages, language, jews, greatly, expansion, europe, death, course, contact, christians, century