Lesson 1: The Origins of Islam

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• Lesson 1 The Origins of Islam
• Lesson Question Why was the Prophet Muhammads
  message so successful among the Arab people of
  the 7th century and non-Arab peoples in
  subsequent periods?
• Lesson Objective The students will understand
  the social, economic and religious factors that
  influenced the Prophet Muhammads message as well
  as the historical reasons for its spread among
  the Arab people of the 7th century and non-Arab
  peoples in subsequent periods.

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• Arabian Peninsula
• Mecca the Kabah
• Caravan Trade the Quraysh
• Judaism Christianity
• Commercial Society Inequality
• Muhammad c.570-632
• Quran
• Hijra 622
• Yathrib (al-Medinah)
• Umma
• Five Pillars (Orthopraxy)
• Shahada Declaration
• Salat Prayer
• Zakat Charity
• Ramadan Fasting
• Hajj - Pilgrimage

• Khalifa (Caliphs)
• Sunnis Shia
• Ali Hosain
• Umayyad Caliphate (661-750)
• Damascus
• Conversion
• Abbasid Caliphate (751-1258)
• Baghdad
• Culture Science
• Fatamids
• Turks
• Mamluks
• Seljuks 1040 - 1157
• Manzikert 1071

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The Kabah
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Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
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The Spread of Islam
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The Abbasid Dynasty

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• Lesson Question
• Why was the Prophet Muhammads message so
  successful among the Arab people of the 7th
  century and non-Arab peoples in subsequent
  periods?

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• Lesson Objective
• The students will understand the social, economic
  and religious factors that influenced the Prophet
  Muhammads message as well as the historical
  reasons for its spread among the Arab people of
  the 7th century and non-Arab peoples in
  subsequent periods.