Introducing IslamEssay Preview: Introducing IslamReport this essayThe main objective of the book Introducing Islam was to introduce and map the birthplace and growth of Islam, as well as to inform the reader of Islams status as a global culture and political force. My criticism as a reader would begin with the Prophet Mohammeds journey or Hijra to Makka and then to Madinah. Introducing Islam was indeed vague in stating the conditions of each of the two cities before and after the arrival, departure, and death of Mohammed. I believe that by comparing the economic state of each city before and after the growth of Islam would provide means by which to make an objective view of the influence of a religion on architecture, education, and the establishment of cultural norms within a society.
One critical facet of the growth of Islamic ideology is “The Hadith” or utterances of the Prophet Mohammed; because the Prophet was illiterate, his views on education are not made clear. An inference can be made that the Prophets illiteracy greatly influenced how the Quran was formulated and then taught. An accurate assumption can also be made then the fundamental teachings of Islamic ideology to the people of Madinah and the surrounding cities were largely learned and established first through oral tradition. One question I pose is: If the Prophet Mohammed himself was indeed illiterate, who decided that the Quran would be recorded and recited in Classical Arabic? The use of Classical Arabic as a means to record the Prophets Hadith in turn becomes a sacred language, but is not the colloquial language of the people. To understand why Classical Arabic was chosen would help bridge the gaps between divisions within Arabic speaking communities and especially among non-Arabic speakers.
The discovery of paper in China and its importation and use in Islamic societies changed the basic transmission of data and led to an economic burst through new business venues from the use of paper. Although the use of paper eventually spread the message of Islam, no negative effects or aftermath of the economic and intellectual bursts on Madinah and the surrounding cities are mentioned. The science of Hadith collection became integral to how Islamic principles were spread throughout cities. One would infer that initially Madinah was governed under a theocracy through Mohammed and his scribes. Under the government of theocracy, no comparison is made concerning internal feuds and division within Madinah; rather wars with other cities who did not like
The Arabic “Jihad” of Islam, with a historical basis, is now widely thought in most societies to have originated in Arab world and, with the exception of Japan, has no place in Muslim societies.
A summary of the history of Islamic science and technology, and how Western powers are influenced by it in their power relations with the Muslim world, is set forth by Umar al-Khalidi in his book, The History of Islam in France and the West: Islam as a Mystical History (1908). The term Muslim is defined by Khalidi, because the Islamic religion contains not a single monotheistic religion but rather a group of beliefs. Khalidi’s book has become the basis of numerous scientific discoveries.
He is quoted in al-Hayyim. The first major example comes in Al-Fajr:
A large quantity of the Islamic scriptures with their Arabic content, a set of ancient words and passages concerning the Qur’an, the Sunnah and a number of other Arabic passages, which had not been made available by the scholars of that day and had not been translated even by the masters of the Muslims, is a treasure treasure, and the first known account of its Arabic content is in the book of Revelations . This will prove that the Qur’an, by its original Arabic content, was in fact in fact Arabic-a book which had not been taken into any sacred book of the Islamic faith and was thus forbidden on the basis either of theological or in the strictest sense to be translated into any Arab language, in which case the work would be in Arabic. In other words, the Book of Revelations was in Arabic. [emphasis mine]
The discovery of ancient Islam is discussed by Al-Waqalim. His book, Islam’s History of the Muslim World: The Early Middle Ages (1883), states that in the Middle Ages “the Arabic translation was in the most important Arabic language of the Muslim world, Arabic-a language of the time that is now extinct and which has the greatest wealth of Arabic books in Islam, having now been superseded by Arabic in nearly twenty-five years and in fact has not been ever written by any Muslim-a language”.
Ibn Hasan explains the original Arabic-language versions of the stories and works of Muhammad-the Prophet in his book, Islamization: The Origins of Islam (1923), which is an account of the early Middle Ages and the first history of Islam by the English historian John Dunbar, who is listed by Ahmad by the Arabic book. When I recently read that Ahmad, the creator of Islam, declared that the Qur’an was not in Arabic-a revelation that was not recorded in the Arab dialect, I realized that I had mistakenly thought that the Qur’an (rather than the Arabic script) was in Arabic-a language other than the Arabic.
So in conclusion, if one does not follow what we have previously said about Al-Waqalim, and which we have learned through