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KF5JRV > TODAY 08.06.19 13:32l 8 Lines 2343 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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In Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of themost influential religious and political leaders in history, dies in thearms of Aisha, his third and favorite wife.Born in Mecca of humble origins, Muhammad married a wealthy widow at 25years old and lived the next 15 years as an unremarkable merchant. In610, in a cave in Mount Hira north of Mecca, he had a vision in which heheard God, speaking through the angel Gabriel, command him to become theArab prophet of the “true religion.ö Thus began a lifetime of religiousrevelations, which he and others collected as the Qur’an. Theserevelations provided the foundation for the Islamic religion. Muhammadregarded himself as the last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition,and he adopted the theology of these older religions while introducingnew doctrines. His inspired teachings also brought unity to the Bedouintribesmen of Arabia, an event that had sweeping consequences for therest of the world.By the summer of 622, Muhammad had gained a substantial number ofconverts in Mecca, leading the city’s authorities, who had a vestedinterest in preserving the city’s pagan religion, to plan hisassassination. Muhammad fled to Medina, a city some 200 miles north ofMecca, where he was given a position of considerable political power. AtMedina, he built a model theocratic state and administered a rapidlygrowing empire. In 629, Muhammad returned to Mecca as a conqueror.During the next two and a half years, numerous disparate Arab tribesconverted to his religion. By his death on June 8, 632, he was theeffective ruler of all southern Arabia, and his missionaries, orlegates, were active in the Eastern Empire, Persia, and Ethiopia.ADVERTISEMENTDuring the next century, vast conquests continued under Muhammad’ssuccessors and allies, and the Muslim advance was not halted until theBattle of Tours in France in 732. By this time, the Muslim empire, amongthe largest the world had ever seen, stretched from India across theMiddle East and North Africa, and up through Western Europe’s Iberianpeninsula. The spread of Islam continued after the end of the Arabconquest, and many cultures in Africa and Asia voluntarily adopted thereligion. Today, Islam is the world’s second-largest religion.
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