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spread of Islam










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How did the spread of
Islam affect the World?



The Muslim community constituted to grow
after Prophet Muhammad's death. Within a few decades, vast numbers of
people across three continents - Africa, Asia, and Europe - had chosen
Islam as their way of life.



One of the reasons for the rapid and
peaceful spread of Islam was the purity of its doctrine - Islam calls
for faith in only one God. This, coupled with the Islamic concepts of
equality, justice and freedom, resulted in a united and peaceful
community. People were free to travel from Spain to China without
fear, and without crossing any borders.



As millions of people embraced Islam,
they brought with them the heritage of ancient civilizations like
Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, and Rome. Muslims cherished these
cultures' knowledge and took great pains to preserve their libraries
and honor and the scholars residing in their cities.



Many Muslim scholars traveled to these
cities seeking knowledge. They translated into Arabic volumes of
philosophical and scientific works from Greek and Syriac languages
(the languages of Eastern Christian scholars), from Pahlavi (the
scholarly language of Pre-Islamic Persia), and from Sanskrit (an
ancient Indian language). As a result, Arabic became the language of
worldly scholarship, and people migrated from all over the world to
study in the Muslim Universities.



By 850, most of the philosophical and
scientific works of Aristotle; much of Plato and Pythagorean school;
and the major works of Greek astronomy, mathematics and medicine such
as the Almagest of Ptolemy, the Elements of Euclid, and the works of
Hippocrates and Galen, were all rendered into Arabic. Furthermore,
important works of astronomy, mathematics and medicine were translated
from Pahlavi and Sanskrit. For the next 700 years, Arabic became the
most important scientific language of the world and the repository of
much of the wisdom and the sciences of antiquity.



The achievement of scholars working in
the Islamic tradition went far beyond translation and preservation of
ancient learning. These scholars built upon the ancient heritage with
their own scientific advances. These advancements were a direct cause
of the Renaissance in Europe.



Muslims excelled in art, architecture,
astronomy, geography, history, language, literature, medicine,
mathematics, and physics. Many crucial systems such as algebra, the
Arabic numerals, and the very concept of zero (vital to the
advancement of mathematics), were formulated by Muslim scholars and
shared with medieval Europe. Muslims invented sophisticated
instruments that made future European voyages of discovery possible:
the astrolabe, the quadrant, and detailed navigational maps and charts.


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