The Rise of Islam 600-1200 - Sonoma Valley High School
... – Arab Empire (not a Muslim Empire), ruled from Damascus, Syria – Umayyad Overthrown 750 w/ help of Shi’ites – Abbasid Caliphate 750-1258 (family of Abbas, Muhammad’s cousin) – Cultural Center of Baghdad, Golden Age of literature & science. Non-Arab conversion in cosmopolitan centers. • Political Fr ...
... – Arab Empire (not a Muslim Empire), ruled from Damascus, Syria – Umayyad Overthrown 750 w/ help of Shi’ites – Abbasid Caliphate 750-1258 (family of Abbas, Muhammad’s cousin) – Cultural Center of Baghdad, Golden Age of literature & science. Non-Arab conversion in cosmopolitan centers. • Political Fr ...
Chapter 10: The Muslim World 600-1250
... • Allah – The One God according to Islam beliefs • Muhammad – Born into a powerful Meccan family, orphaned at 6, little schooling, Greatest Prophet according to Islamic Beliefs • Muslim – The one who has submitted • Islam – Submission to the will of Allah ...
... • Allah – The One God according to Islam beliefs • Muhammad – Born into a powerful Meccan family, orphaned at 6, little schooling, Greatest Prophet according to Islamic Beliefs • Muslim – The one who has submitted • Islam – Submission to the will of Allah ...
Historicity of Muhammad
Muslim religious scholars rely primarily for their understanding of the life of Muhammad on the Qur'an, which gives very little information and whose historicity has been questioned, and on the sīra literature and Hadith which survive in the historical works of writers of second, third, and fourth centuries of the Muslim era (c. 700−1000 AD). Modern historians have preferred to use as a starting-point a relatively small number of contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous non-Muslim sources and archaeological evidence, but also make use of later Muslim sources in their investigations.