In around 570 CE, Muhammad was born, the one who would become the Prophet of one of the world’s greatest religion, Islam. Islam is originated from Mecca, where Muhammad was born. Muhammad spread Islam around Mecca. After the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, many faithful Muslims waged war to protect their faith beyond the Arabian Peninsula. There were many conquests leading to more followers to the religion. Islamic civilization spread to encompass an extensive empire through conquest, peaceful conversion and compromise.
Islam was able to encompass an extensive empire through conquest. In the following document,Sir Edward Creasy provides a description of the Battle of Tours in 732 CE, from the Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World it says, “ The Moslems struck their enemies and laid waste to the country and took captives without number… everything gave way…show more content… For example in Document 5 it says, “But many Arabs were Jews or Christians: What was to be done of them? Mohammed respected the older monotheistic faiths… he called them “People of the Book” … they were not forced into Islam but were allowed to retain their ancestral religion on payment of tribute.” Allowing peaceful conversion between the three different types of religion to converge, Muhammad was able to enlarge their civilization and empire through the people of different religions to Another example in Document 6 states, “ The Moslems, on the other hand, required from others a simple guarantee of peace, tribute in return for protection, of perfect equality, on the condition of the acceptance of Islam…”
In conclusion, Islamic civilization spread to encompass such an extensive empire through conquest, compromise and peaceful conversions. Methods or practices used to accomplish this were those who profess to Islam were all treated equally, and those who weren’t will be protected by the Muslims under
