Discuss the conditions that allowed Islam to explode out of the Arabian peninsula and create an empire. Consider the the religion itself and how the message made it possible to rapidly expand beyond Arabia. In your opinion, what was the most important factor in that rapid expansion?
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The message of Islam is basically to not fear death because death is something to look forward to. Win battle the Islamic people would be very dangerous. They are like men with nothing to lose and everything to gain, because beyond this life there is a life that if far better. And in this land is their god. I am looking at this the way you would expect a normal teenage guy to look at it. War helps everything. War is cool. War would cause the most rapid expansion.
by the way mr. Yip all that work you made us do made my respect/like level for you travel from 100% to abot 98%...good luck getting those points back
Islam was such an exploding religion that people wanted to follow it because of the promises that it made, which were very similar to what Jesus was trying to preach before Muhammad. The way that Islam taught it was that everyone is equal in Allah's eye and that it expanded so far because they did not force submissed countries to follow Islam. For me, the most important factor of the rapid expansion was that the succesors who tried to expand Islam never forced anyone to join them, they preached their ways and then who wanted to follow could.
P.S. Tom, I disagree with you extremly because war is a horrible thing to say that it is cool. So I would not say that alot, you might get hurt.
P.P.S. Mr. Yip, I'm agreeing with Tom on this comment, my respect dropped down completly all the way down to 99%. It's tough but I didn't know what to do. I'm currently on question 10.
P.P.P.S. I don't mind learning about Islam but this method is not fun at all, and frankly, sucks. <(-.-)> <- Kirby agrees with me.
Hey guys,
My respect/like level for you guys remain unchanged!
Good job Dave, you only have 43 to go!
Kelly Francisco
Rapid expanison was made possible by many theories in the book. However, theres is no doubt that energy was focued on wars and fighting. The arabs put together a higly motivated army that conisted of "brilliant" generals. Rapid expansion was made possible by the strengthining of the army. Converion to Islam also helped. The fact that equality was also mentioned in this "new" [at the time] religion also helped this expansion. Many factors helped the expansion but I believe the most important factor was the whole equality thing. It gave people a positive idea about the religion which lead to expansion.
p.s i finally finished all 53 questions after 2 hours..
Thanks Mr. Yip, that really cheered me up. I've been really down ever since I've been working on the questions and I am now on question 31. Yay me!
P.S. Kelly, I rather dislike you right now for compleing all that its takin me forever. But maybe that's because I'm doing about three different things right now.
Oh yeah, and Mr. Yip, I was going to do that extra credit blog thing in the Period 1 blog but then I looked at it and everyone wrote novels for it so I'm ashamed to even try.
Whoever pissed off yip I'm going to kill you. I'm serious
Islam was capable of rapidly expanding out of the Arabian peninsula because followers felt little seperation between political and religious authority. Arabs commited to Islam felt inspired to spread the beliefs to other neighboring societies. The energy once used against eachother could be used to unite eachother through the religion. I think that the most important factor in this expansion would be, the strength to unite peoples with equality through a common belief system.
I think that the condition that allowed Islam to explode out of the Arabian peninsula and start dominating surrouding empires was because of their overly-moraled army. The soldiers as Tom said did not fear or care for death because if they died in battle they were a guaranteed a place in paradise. The most important factor was religion because without it they would not be so pumped and have nothing really to fight for. It was like they are on steriods when they believe.
P.S. everyone who did those questions suck. im on number 1
So many people followed Islam because of the life with Allah you would have for eternity. As Tom said, people weren't afraid to die because you would be granted eternal life. That is what made the Islamic people fierce. Also, their preachers wouldn't force anyone to join them like Dave said, they just preach the word of Allah and believed in the ONE God.
Oh and thanks for all the Homework Mr. Yip, your 53 questions is really going to make me love homework added to the other amounts of homework i've already gotten. Now i hate your class a whole .000000000000000001 more!
Islam exploded out of Islam for many reasons. Once muhammad died, they were free to build an empire. With their empire and emporer, Islam was able to concuer most of Europe almong with parts of north africa. The factional struggles between who would be emporer didn't slow down islam's expansion and they continued to concuer. The reason why Islam was so easy to follow, was that it was the newest message of god. This religion made Christianity and jeudism outdated, and the previous word of the god, where as Islam was the newest and correct word of god. I agree with david, when he said that the succesors didn't force anyone to follow their religion. They had a choice and weren't killed if they refused. Their tolerance level was very high and I believe this is why Islam rapidly expanded.
i think that the most important factor of the rapid expansion was the soldiers. if you have a motivated army with the beleif they get 75 virgins upon death, there going to fight like madmen. that coupled with the generals and weakened foes allowed rapid expansion. they held power by being accepting of everyone. the mega mosques were also helpful in showing people the splendor of islam. the religon took old centers of trade and religon like damascus and cairo. on top of that, they built new ones like baghdad. this allowed massive wealth and influence. the conversion of the turks is an example of their power.
p.s. most of those questions could be answered with one sentence or less.
I think the main reason for the rapid expansion of islam was that it was a stable religion. No matter who the sucessor was the religion stayed the same and wasn't changed. Allah was still the only god and Muhammad was still only his prophet. Since the religion never changed, it made many people follow and respect it. Causing more men to join the army and more expansion of the religion. I agree with Tom that not fearing death made their armies strong, because paradise was promised after death in battle. I am still a little hesitant to believe that all teenagers thought war was cool. No matter what you're promised, war is a scary thing to experience, expecially at that stage in life.
Islam expanded rapidly because they conquered land. when they conquered an area they influenced the people there. also rulers of other empires converted and this caused their people to convert. the religion an lifestyle itself is very appealing. people like the idea of an afterlife.
ps. i finished the questions after 2 hours and i thought that it could have been worse and am glade it wasn't
I think the greatest reason that Islam spread so quickly was that it already had a good ampunt of followers, then when Mohammad died they continued his actions by planning to spread the Islamic belief. And what better way to do it by marching into to battle with an army of men believing that if they die in battle they'll wake up to paradise. That would be an army with good morale and hard to defeat, you can see why they were able to conquer and convert so quickly. And I'm sure the belief of the one caring god helped as well.
After Muhammad's death, various Caliphs took place to evolve in land. They were expanding as they unified under Muhammad's successor. Vast territories were conquered and made good usage of. There was a belief among Islam that prevailed all warriors who died in battle gained a position in paradise. The conflict between the Byzantine and Persian Empires allowed Islam in an advantageous position. With what Tom said, not fearing death as it led to paradise, a belief, I think would be the most significant factor as it gained the power of the people and warriors.
I agree with Tom that the fact that the Islams had no fear of death made them better fighters allowing them to take over more land and ecpand their religion to those places. However, I disagree with you that war is cool. I agree that it may be cool in video games and movies but in real life real people actually get killed, and how many people have to killed before everyone realizes how pointless war is?
I agree with Tom that the fact that the Islams had no fear of death made them better fighters allowing them to take over more land and ecpand their religion to those places. However, I disagree with you that war is cool. I agree that it may be cool in video games and movies but in real life real people actually get killed, and how many people have to killed before everyone realizes how pointless war is?
The expansion of Islam is easy to understand considering the religion is easy to follow with rules and codes for a way of life that even instructs daily practices. The message for a new way of life is spelled out and people are guaranteed “eternal paradise”. This would make people that live in a desert climate excited about their future, and want to be part of the religion. Rapid expansion was made faster because of the army. With the belief that Muslims who died in battle went to paradise made them fight with a new kind of intense push that made them extremely strong.
I think as for why they expanded it could have been any of The reasons that were mentioned in the book were drought or new energies. I think if anything any excuse would have worked but I really think they just wanted to get more powerful. It's like any other strong force, they just want more. I think the most important factor on the rapid expansion was this idea and I think alex talked about this and it was this modivation to fight and die for their nation. Smart generals are good, but they are nothing without a good modivated army you will lose and with a modivation that if you die for your nation you get paradise how can you lose?
Honestly, After readin through this section was I able to realize that it was all about the idea of an afterlife in paradise. These people that pretty much instantly got hooked on this religion was because they were living in a harsh, desert like enviornment where it is hot and if you were ever to get into trouble, there would be help, but it would be hours away. This area was always being constantly fought over, there was always death a chaos, so people would look forward to believing in a peaceful life that would be coming to them after this one if they were simply to respect allah and follow his instructions.
meg (forgot to log out my brother)
Wars and fighting contributed to Islam's capability to expand. Many faithful and dedicated followers also enabled Islam to expand through their preaching and example.
Edward Cummins
Dylan and Tom have a point about the Islams having the influence and the stive to fight. Just like in Spartacus, the only reason why they won so much is because they had a reason for fighting. They had something worth fighting for. I completely agree with Dylan when he says that fighting in wars is absolutely horrible. I just think of Iraq and think who has died in past wars and I also try to imagine myself being able to take that much violence and death being at my ears every second of every day. I can't imagine what some of the people do when they do seen all of that.
Edward Cummins
I do believe Kyle as well when he says that the ideal of the afterlife aided them in their expansion as well.
O yes the Islamic expansion. Let us start with the fact that their religious determination is staggering. The dedication to the belief of the afterlife, and in Muhammad was what I believe helped them conquer so dramatically. And man did they want to get out of where they lived. It was very hard for families to maintain stable health in over 100 degree weather. They wanted to succeed and reach the potential they thought they had. This is when they started winning wars and converting other people to the Islamic religion. Once they began furthering their belief in the religion they began to have no fear in death. This is because the belief of the religion showed a rewarding after life. The thought of nothing to loose and a paradise in heaven made others jump at the religion like kindergartners jump at the Jonas Brothers.
hey everybody, im here to offer my skewed view on this topic, whether you like it or not. by the way mr yip i posted that other blog on islam, there is no way im failing this unit. anyway, on to the question. i think that islam spread because its message made sense to people. to do good deeds will result in good consequences. if there are multiple gods then why have those idols of them not created anything for you. die for a cause and you will be rewarded in salvation. these messages were appealing to poor polytheists who were wasting their goods in sacrifice to these idols. im gonna have to go my own way and say that islams message is to completely and utterly surrender yourself to god. mostly cause i speak arabic and istislam translates directly into surrender. when they began to believe in god, they had a cause to fight for and to fight a war for this cause was called jihad. any warrior fighting for this cause was giving their lives for their religion which would allow god to requit them positively at the end of days. ok so im starting to ramble but the point is this, this was an appealing religion because when you fought for it then you would go to heaven at the end of days. ok im done now.
P.S did anyone see the show? we were pretty beast.
P.P.S my respect scale for mr yip goes up to 110 so yea
and the p.s is kind of annoying so stop.
The reason that Islam exploded the in the way that it did was because of the massive expansion of Islam territory through warfare. When someone has a sword to your throat and says "Believe this", only the idiots say no, and only the idiots die. When you have a massive group of people "spreading Allah's message", and they all have pointy weapons, most people tend to listen for fear of gruesome dismemberment.
I think the reason so many people followed Islam was because of the promises it made. Islam said that death was not to be feared, it was something to look forward to and there was eternal life. Also, any new religion offers a new hope to people who have had a bad life.
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