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Expansion of Islam in the Middle East


 * In the region of the Arabian Peninsula, the influence of established monotheistic religions established by Judaism and Christianity were cureents that lead to the rise of a number of prophets that utged the bedouin tribe renounce a one almighty god.
 * The prophet Muhammed's massage responded to these influences flowing into Arabia and related to social disorganization that were distrubting the Arab life.
 * Muhammed poved to be an able leader whn he won the treaty with Quraysh in 628 acompanied by his triumphal return to his home-town.
 * Islam gave these bedouin people many things such as a monotheistic faiths, unity, and a sense of community withholding itself.
 * After the death of Muhammed,, and a pause to settle disputes the Ummayyad, the political center of community shifted to Damascus in Syria, it was an empire of Arab conquest state.
 * Thay were isolating themselves from the "converts" to try and to prevent intermarriages, and conversions.
 * The Abbasids who successed the Umayyads, Islam became the universal religion, flourished and extended over Euro-Asia and Africa.
 * Lead to commercial boom and agarian expansion by the great wealth and social statusof the merchant and landlord classes.
 * Their main task was to preserve the learning of the ancient civilization such as Plato, and Aristotle in subjects such as medicine, Algebra, geometry, and astronomy.
 * It was the birth place of such a powerful and greatest religion.

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=By: Hakima Warda, & Jenny=