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Sudden Expansion of Islam after 1832?

Date Submitted: 11/03/2004 02:16:21
Length: 5 pages (1294 words)
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Islam the religion is a way of life for Muslims across the world. There are over one billion Muslims spread throughout the globe transcending all nationalities, languages and ethnic backgrounds. How did all this begin? “The history of Islam begins with Muhammad, but not with his birth, for its date is one of many things which are not known about him.” Muhammad’s mother died when he was six years old, his father before he …

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…people. The expansion of Islam continued westward as far as Southern France where in 732 the French army defeated the Muslims at Narboone. The Muslim however kept control of Spain and conquered northwards to Constantinople and across the river Indus which is now in modern day Pakistan. By 750, Muslims had an Empire stretching from Persia across North Africa to Spain. A century after the death of the prophet, Islam embraced more territory than the Roman Empire.

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