Isma
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- The arabian peninsula is the crossroads between the European, African, and Asian continents due to the desert´s inability to support farming, by the early 600 most of the inhabitants decided to live near oasis or on market towns near the western coast of Arabia, these towns became important trade hubs. One of these towns was mecca
- During holy months, caravans stopped in Mecca, a city in west-ern Arabia. The Pilgrims came to worship a shrine called the Ka’aba. The Arabs associated this shrine with Abraham, a Hebrew prophet and a believer in one God. Over the years, the Ka’aba added over 360 idols.The concept of belief in one God, called Allah in Arabic, was knownon the Arabian Peninsula. Many Christians and Jews lived there and practicedmonotheism. Into this mixed religious environment of Mecca, around A . D. 570,Muhammad was born.
- Muhammad as a young man took great interest in religion and often spent time alone in prayer and meditation. At about the age of 40, Muhammad’s life was changed overnight when a voice called to him while he meditated in a cave outside Mecca.According to Muslim belief, the voice was that of the angel Gabriel, who told Muhammad that he was a messenger of Allah, convinced him that Allah was the last of the prophets. He began to teach that Allah was the one and only God and that all other gods must be abandoned. People who agreed to this basic principle of Islamwere called Muslims.
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