HIST 1007 Chapter : August 27 The World Of Islam
Document Summary
The world of islam: origins: the prophet muhammed (571-632 ced, beliefs and practices, expansion, varieties of islam. Islam = surrender or submission , also related to the arabic word for peace , essentially the. Peace that comes with the surrender of your will to god : origins of islam, muhammed was born in mecca, it was a bridge between the mediterranean and the. Empire to the east (important trading center, some families in mecca were wealthy as a result: mecca was a religious/pilgrimage center. Arabs at the time believed in many gods, there was a shrine in the center of mecca to represent many gods (the ka"ba: at age 40 muhammed begins having visions and escapes to a cave where he was. Visited by the angel gabriel (muhammed"s revelations: gabriel tells him there is only one god (this is the core of islam today, muhammed begins preaching his revelations in mecca, and it"s very unpopular at first.
