... an from the city of Mecca. Despite the simplicity of this single event, Islam spread far beyond its Arabian beginnings. As a result of the Arab conquests of the seventh century, many people were attracted to the unity of this Islamic society. The rise of Islam as an international tradition of ... 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 ...

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... From the very beginning, one of the most important factors that led to the political instability of the Islamic empire was the inexperience of the Arab people in organized government on a large scale. In pre-Islamic times the Arabian peninsula was a desert backwater, largely ignored by the rulers ... breaks upon their conversion to Islam which had never been delivered to them. Many of the Muwali joined forces with the Khariji and became Shiite Muslims. Even among the Arabs there was factional fighting. The main division was between two factions called the Qays and Yemenis. The Yemeni's ....

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