Islam Grows
New leader
- after Muhammad died in 632 the Muslim community needed to make the decision on who woiuild be their next religious leader
- They selected one of Muhammad's good friends named Abu-Bakr to become the first Caliph meaning successor
Issues
- Some tribes around the Arabian Peninsula abandonded Islam completely
- others would not pay taxes
- Some individuals even declared themselves to be prophets
Attempts to resolve
- Abu-Bakr declared a Jihad which has two meanings
- an inner struggle with the devil
- an armed struggle against non-believesrs
Expansion by military
- The Muslim community began to expand under Abu-Bakr as well
- the next 3 caliphers after Abu-Bakr expanded into the Sassanid and Byzantine empires
Reasons for success
- they did very well in conquest between thse empires because they had been fighting each other for many years before this
- well disciplined
- Great leaders
- Two empries werent tolerent of the religions in their conquered area, so their muslims in the empries would often help other muslims that invade the empires.
Treatment of the conqured people
- The Quran does not allow for Muslims to force others to convert ot this religion
- Muslims allowed the Cristians and Jews to pratice their religions buth they couldn't spread it
- they made the Ceristians and th Jews pay a tax however because they did not fight for the islam military groups
Research
Islam split
why did it happen
when was the major split
who are the key players
Umayyads, Shia, SUnni, Sufi and Abbasids
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