Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars of islam;

Less than 200 years Islam went from not existing to being the religious and political organizing principle of one of the largest empires in the world and that stor begins in the 7th century CE II when the angel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad fortyish guy who made his living as a aravan trader and told him to begin reciting the Word of God.

initially this freaked Muhammad out as you know it would but then his wife and a couple other people encouraged him and slowly he came to accept the mantle of prophet a few things to know about the world islam entered first Muhammad society was intensely tribal he was a member of the Quraysh tribe living in Mecca and tribal ties were extremely important also at the time the Arabian Peninsula was like this crazy religious melting pot like most tribal Arabs worshipped gods very similar to the Mesopotamian gods by the time of Muhammad cult statues of many of those gods had been collected in his hometown of Mecca in this temple like structure called the kebab but Arabia was also home to monotheism like Christianity and Judaism and even a bit of Zoroastrianism so the message that there was only one.

Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars of islam;