In the fifth century C.E. a merchant aristocrat called Muhammad from Mecca claimed to have received a divine prophecy from God's messenger, Angel Gabriel. This prophecy is known as the Qu'ran. Mecca was a thriving commercial town that was a pilgrimage site where Ka'ba stood and was the center of the caravan trade. Mecca also held the origins of Islam. Muhammad was motivated to begin this new religious tradition because he saw what materialism and idolatry was doing to the world. After Muhammad's proclamation of God's last call to the people, him and his followers fled to Medina in 622 due to the religious persecutions they had received. This flight is k

The prophecy proclaimed by Muhammad seemed to be attractive to people throughout the world. Politically, the Islamic order for society spread and developed in new environments to an enormity far beyond Muhammad's imagination. Islam was destined to become a world religion and to create a civilization that stretched from one end of the globe to the other. The success of the Arab conquests was a result of tolerance for other religions and openness to diverse cultures. Therefore, the rise of Islam as an international tradition of religious, political, and social principles and institutions is one of the greatest revelations of all time.

Roughly after 1000 C.E., Islam began to spread into the far stretches of the world. Islamic influences reached Northern India by warriors and trade merchants where an Arab and Persian cultural mix called Urdu-Hindi formed. Islam spread to Southeast Asia by trade routes and to Sub-Saharan Africa. Islam had its greatest influence in the Western Sudan of Africa in the three kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. These three successor kingdoms became increasingly Islamic and a culture and language mix called Swahili resulted. In South Africa, the Great Zimbabwe's control of gold

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