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... Joys and glories almost as fantastic and sensual as the lascivious Arabian mind could imagine. "As Plenty of water is one of the greatest additions to the delights of the Bedouin Arab, the Koran often speaks of the rivers of Paradise as a principal ornament therof; some of these streams flow with water, some with wine, and others with honey, besides many ... ...
... , ivory, spices, silk and metals. Bedouins would travel through the desert, herd animals, and act as guides for caravans. Merchants used religion to make alliances with them, they invited the Bedouin's into the Kabah to worship. Inside the Kabah there was the sacred black stone, which was a meteorite that fell from space, and other objects that were sacred to the Meccans ... ...
... to Stearns, "the new faith (Islam) threatened to supplant the gods of the Ka"ba, whose shrines had done so much to establish the city as a center of commerce and Bedouin interchange" (Stearns, 284). Muhammad then established himself as a religious and military leader in Medina, and later returned in triumph to Mecca in about 630 A.D. From Mecca, Muhammad was instrumental in ... ...
