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Welcome to our World History section, a vast treasure trove of historical knowledge that takes you on a captivating journey through the annals of human civilization. Our collection spans a wide spectrum of topics, providing an exhaustive resource for history enthusiasts, students, and curious minds
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The Greeks were the first to formulate many of the Western world's
fundamental concepts in politics, philosophy, science, and art. How was itthat a relative handful of people could bequeath such a legacy tocivilization? The definitive answer may always elude the historian, but a goodpart of the expl...
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Gaius Marius Marius, Gaius (circa 157-86BC), Roman general and statesman, who led the Populares during the civil war of 88-86BC.
Caius Marius (died 86 B.C.E.)
By PlutarchWritten 75 A.C.E.Translated by John Dryden
We are altogether ignorant of any third name of Caius Marius; as also of Quintus Sertor
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
Islamic Culture
The attainments of the Muslims in the intellectual and artistic fieldscan be attributed not only to the genius of Arabs, but also to those peopleswho embraced the Islamic faith in Persia, Mesopotamia, Turkey, Syria, Egypt,North Africa, and ...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
The Arab Empire Of The Umayyads
Muhammad's victory over the Umayyads, his capture of Mecca, and theresulting allegiance of many of the bedouin tribes of Arabia created a whollynew center of power in the Middle Eastern cradle of civilizations. A backward,no...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
From Arab To Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era
The sudden shift from Umayyad to Abbasid leadership within the IslamicEmpire reflected a series of even more fundamental transformations withinevolving Islamic civilization. The revolts against the Umayyad...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002The Mosque As A Symbol Of Islamic Civilization
From one end of the Islamic world to the other, Muslim towns and citiescould (and can today) be readily identified by the domes and minarets of themosques where the faithful were (and are) called to prayer five...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
An Age Of Learning And Artistic Refinement
The avid interest in Muslim ideas and material culture displayed byEuropean knights and merchants who journeyed to the centers of Islamiccivilization in this era cautions us against placing too great an emphasis o...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
Western Intrusions And The Crisis In The Arab Islamic Heartlands
By the early 1800s, the Arab peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt,coastal Arabia and North Afric had lived for centuries under Ottoman-Turkishrule. Though most Arabs resented Turkish domina...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
Muhammad, Prophet Of Islam
Into this environment at Mecca was born a man who would change completelythe religious, political, and social organization of his people. Muhammad (c.570-632) came from a family belonging to the Koraysh. His early years werediffi...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300Date: 2002
The Islamic Faith And Law
Islam places great emphasis on the necessity of obedience to God's law inaddition to faith. The Koran is the fundamental and ultimate source ofknowledge about Allah and the proper actions of his followers. This holy bookcontains th...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
The Spread Of Islam
The Islamic state expanded very rapidly after the death of Muhammadthrough remarkable successes both at converting unbelievers to Islam and bymilitary conquests of the Islamic community's opponents. Expansion of theIslamic state was an ...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
Conclusion
In this chapter, we have examined the origins and meteoric development ofIslam - both the religion and the community. The great power of Muhammad'steachings enabled the creative but fragmented Arab tribes to unify and expandacross three continen...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002The Coming Of Islam To South Asia
The pattern of political fragmentation that had left the much-reducedAbbasid caliphate vulnerable to nomadic invasions was also found in theregions of South Asia to which Islam spread during the centuries of Abbasiddecline....
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002
The Spread Of Islam To Southeast Asia
The spread of Islam to various parts of coastal India set the stage forits further expansion to island Southeast Asia. As we have seen, Arab tradersand sailors regularly visited the ports of Southeast Asia long before ...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002Spread Into Africa
The spread of Islam, from its heartland in the Middle East and NorthAfrica to India and Southeast Asia, revealed the power of the religion and itscommercial and sometimes military attributes. Civilizations were alteredwithout being fully ...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Date: 2002The Abbasids, Zenith Of Islamic Civilization
In 750 the Umayyad Dynasty was removed from power by rebels, and a newdynasty, the Abbasid, ruled most of the Muslim world from 750 to 1258. Thecity of Baghdad was built in 762 as the capital of the new caliph,Ab...
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Islam From The Beginning To 1300
Author: Stearns, Peter N.Date: 1992s
Arabia Before The Prophet
Islam produced one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known. While Europe wallowed in the mire of the Dark Ages, Islam produced advances in science, mathematics, literature, medicine, archit...
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