REL119 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ummah, Arab Christians, Indus River
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The islamic culture and racial and cultural groups: one of islam"s main principles is that of the ummah, or the plurality of the. Muslim people who make up the islamic world. Islam was, from the beginning, a religion which addressed humanity as a whole and strongly opposed all forms of racism and tribalism, as the following popular. In the presence of heaven the noblest of you is the righteous. Islam"s later history was to bolster its global destiny: over the years, arabs and persians, turks and indians, black africans and. Malaysians, chinese and even some tibetans, mongolians and slavs have become part of the ummah, and islam has spread across europe, north and south. America and, to some degree, australia over the past few decades: there is hardly any racial or ethnic group in the world that has no members of the. In less than a century after the prophet founded the first islamic community in.