HISTORY OF ISLAM

History of Islam



Abstract

This report is of “history about Islam”, how Islam started and who started it and what were the obstacles in the spreading of Islam.

History of Islam

At the beginning of the seventh years Byzantium, the Eastern domain now completely distinct from the disintegrated west, was the most mighty force in the world rivaled by Persia under the Sassanian dynasty. But in a little town in south Arabia a man was born who was to change the annals of the east forever. In the last chapter I touched briefly on the differences between "inner-directed' and "outer-directed cultures." In an inner directed culture all of the activities allowed by the culture are determined by the members of the culture as they faced its emerging needs (Glick, 102). In the harsh environment of the Arabian Desert life was determined in response to powers of nature which were seen as divine entities (Nimtz, 56). It is necessarily outer-directed. Life in such an outer-directed culture is simpler (Glubb, 128). Cultural norms and undertakings are very resolute and enforced by the outside agency. In this case the desert. Aculture which can arrive to grips with life in an outer-directed sense can accomplish a degree of closeness that is not likely in an inner-directed heritage because restrictions on activities are never arbitrary. And their authority is the world itself as symbolized by irrefutable divine entities. The residents of Mecca were Bedouin tribesmen with an extended history of nomadic life in the Arabian steppes. They came from a life dwelled by a firm code evolved in answer to the harsh environment of the desert. Life in Mecca, on the other hand, was completely different it was evolved around its value as an oasis that lay on the crossroads of a number of ...