Circa 4 Million To 1 Million B.C.E.
Circa 1.5 Million To 200,000 B.C.E.
Circa 1,000,000-10,000 B.C.E.
Circa 250,000 B.C.E.
Circa 40,000 B.C.E.
Circa 8000 B.C.E.
5000 B.C.E.
Circa 4000-3500 B.C.E.
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Religion and Science. One of the greatest challenges that humanity has faced is finding a balance between religious faith and science. Learned men and women of the ancient civilizations of China, the ...
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Islam. The name Islam and the concepts associated with its teachings are found in the Qur'an, which Muslims believe to be the Word of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad during roughly twenty-two yea...
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Diversity. During the long period between 622 and 1500, over a territory that extended from Spain to India, Muslim family and social life—including marriage, sexual customs, child rearing, educa...
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Cultural Interactions. The period from 622 to 1500 belongs to an era of intensifying interactions in the Eastern Hemisphere, and Muslim civilization was a major part of the cultural, technological, ec...
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Revealed Law. At first, political and legal organization in Islam was simple. From the time he began preaching publicly, about 612, the Prophet Muhammad guided a small community of followers at Makkah...
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Pre-Islamic Arabia. On the eve of the rise of Islam, the society of Makkah was becoming increasingly diversified as more and more nomadic tribes settled in and around the city. Makkan mercantile activ...
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Ancient Background. Art has been part of everyday life from the time of the earliest civilizations in the ancient Near East, which form the background for the civilizations of Islam and the modern Wes...
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Unity. The world of Islam is often regarded as one of great unity, which is attributed to a common faith. To the degree that Muslims quite consciously think of themselves as belonging to a single worl...
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Study of the Earth and Its Inhabitants. Geography is the study of the earth as the home of humankind. The discipline encompasses the realms of nature and culture and the relationship between the two. ...
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The Islamic civilization was able to encompass such an extensive empire for many different reasons. This civilization was very successful, because of the choice of either following Mohammed/Quaran or...
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There are three great western religions that through history have globally expanded throughout the world. One of those western religions is Islam. Islam was first introduced and developed on the Ara...
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The religious, social, political and economical climates of seventh century Arabia, also known as pre-Islamic Arabia, contributed immensely to the emergence of Islam.
Religious climates were one of t...
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Christianity was new and different from other religions. It was appealing because it had no real strict rules, it had a high status in society, and a belief in miracles. These also helped to spread it...
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Muhammad is the founder the religion of Islam. Muhammad is also the last prophet of the religion of Islam. He became a prophet through the angel Gabriel, who expressed God's will to Muhammad. Muha...
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