HIST 1001 Chapter : History Islam II
Document Summary
At the top: arab muslims- arabs did not want a lot of people to convert to. Conquests stopped in early 8th century ad- spread of islam was military. Defeat in eastern iran, 715 ad- by the turks. Defeat in france 732 ad- by the franks. Islam because most of them were non-arabs and they did not trust them. Muslims and families started to marry these people. Slaves- different than western slaves; could not enslave a muslim; when there was a concubine that had children, when the man did her and her children were free. Revelations given to mohammed by the angel gabriel; no evidence that. Mohammed was literate; he did not write down the revelations; after he died, a lot. Qur"an means lecture or recitation of mohammed"s closest followers decided to write it down; collections of what his followers remembered him saying what gabriel told him; the qur"an now was written about 300 years after mohammed"s death.
