The Rise of Islam

The Origins of Islam

    Islam was a religion based in the 7th Century AD by Mohammed, an Arabian merchant from the town of Mecca. In the century's premier up to the birth of Mohammed, Christianity had become the superior belief of the Mediterranean and its note was rapidly dispersing to other districts of the world by the foremost trade paths of the era. Mecca was a significant town along these trade paths, playing a foremost function in the flow of items and concepts between the trade schemes of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. It should thus arrive as no surprise that Islam would be very powerfully leveraged by the customs of Christianity and Judaism. For demonstration, Mohammed asserted that he was travelled to by the angel Gabriel, who acquainted him that he was to be the messenger of God. Abraham, Moses, and Jesus are all advised significant prophets in Islam, Muslims even assertion that Abraham travelled to Mecca and established the Kaaba there, whereas there is no mention of this happening in Christian and Judaic sources.

The Conquest of the Maghreb

     It was not until the Arabs come to the Maghreb, what Arabs call Northwest Africa, that they were contacted with rigid resistance. At this time, command of Northwest Africa was split up amidst the Byzantines, who controlled the seaboard locality round the town of Carthage, and the native Berber peoples, who controlled the central and the seaboard locality of Morocco. The City of Carthage dropped rather effortlessly to the Arabs, who then shifted on to salary a conflict contrary to the Berbers. Berber opposition to the Arab conquest concentrated round a Berber Queen entitled Kahina, she directed the Berbers in several thriving assaults contrary to the Arabs. In the meantime, the Byzantine Emperor Leontief dispatched his navy to recapture Carthage from the Arabs in a spectacular surprise attack. The Arabs were compelled to withdraw to Kairouan and regroup; in 698 AD they inundated Carthage for a second time and apprehended the city. As penalty for the city's rigid opposition, the Arabs decimated Carthage for the second time in its annals, just as the Romans had finished in 146 BC. With Carthage eventually decimated, the Arabs were adept to turn their vigilance back to the Berber resistance. The Berber Queen Kahina was adept to beat the Arabs afresh and propel them out of the Maghreb.

The Invasion of Europe

Once all of North Africa was under the direct of the Islamic Caliphate, the Arabs trashed no time in traversing the Straits of Gibraltar and invading Europe. Visigoth Spain was effortlessly overrun in just a couple of years, but the Arabs were halted by the Franks at the assault of Tours in 733 AD. Thus most of Europe was kept from Muslim direct and would to this day stay Christian. (Sarkhosh, 55)

Aftermath

Nevertheless, the expansion of Islam was astounding. In just 100 years after the death of Mohammed, Islam had by force of arms, amplified out of Arabia and conquered ...