HISB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crusader States, Islamization, Abbasid Caliphate
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Lecture 4: the spread of islam (may 29, 2014) Politically (military contracts), trade, missionary works, economic contracts. The prophet and the revelation of the quran. Career of prophet mohammed around 610 ce: got message from the angel gabriel, tried to preach message in mecca but it didn"t really work out. 622 ce: he sent some of his followers to modern day ethiopia a christian kingdom. The king gave the protection led to alliance 614-615 ce. Over the next 10 years, series of battles were fought against the meccans and their allies and the jewish tribes. Prophet died in 632: before his death, he was able to make a lot of treaties, a lot of tribes reneged on the treaties. Once the prophet died, they belived the treaties were done: at the time of his death, the whole of arabia was not yet under the islamic belief, political leader, lawgiver, judge.