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Muslims in general and Arab Muslims were the best merchants of the time. They travelled all over the world and discovered many lands and sites on earth. They sold and purchased goods and spread good manners and love. This was the main cause for many nations to know Islam and finally embrace it from Asia to china and Africa.
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How did Muslims view merchants?
Merchants had a very favorable view in the Islamic world as the purveyors of goods and emissaries of their religion.
How do Muslims feel merchants?
Any man can adopt any profession to earn his livelihood. Being a merchant is a respectable profession among the Muslims.
What people lead merchants in the middle east and northern Africa until the late 1400s?
Muslims
Why do Muslim parents encourage their children not to like christians?
Muslims do not encourage their children not to like Christians. Christians and Jews are people of the book as mentioned in the Quran and the people closer to Muslims are Christians as mentioned in the Quran. Muslims are allowed to marry Christians and Jews as they are people of the book. It is therefore a misconception on your part to think that Muslims are encouraged not to like Christians!
What did Muslim merchants do in order to make trade exchanges less problematic?
Muslims traveled with no weapon being carried when entering city or town to trade. (happy Muslims =])
What if people don't pray?
Muslim PerspectiveSalat, the formal Muslim prayer, is the criterion which distinguishes Muslims from non-Muslims. If you see a person offering salat, you may be certain that s/he is Muslim. Not praying is a serious sin. Additionally, Muslims who do not offer salat miss out on the many blessings of doing it. If Muslim notice that one of them is not offering salat, it is their responsibility to remind and encourage him or her to do it.Non-Muslim PerspectiveIf Muslims don't pray, they will have more time to do other stuff.
How do Muslims relate to god?
Muslims believe in ONE god and relate to god as the servers of god, that is to worship, spread the message and most importantly encourage peace. How do Christians relate to god?
How did Muslims encourage cultural blending and the acceptance of Islam and the Arabic language?
spread ideas through trade, conquest, and expansion
Why did the portuguese want to destroy Muslim shipping power?
The trade that Muslims performed was direct competition for the Portuguese merchants. By the natural laws of competition, the Portuguese wanted to shut down Muslim shipping to expand the ambit of Portuguese shipping. The fact that Muslims were evangelizing a religion that the Portuguese believed to be demonic (Islam), did not help improve the Muslim merchants' esteem in the Portuguese government-leaders' minds.
What strategy did Buddhist and Christian missionaries employ to spread their faith that Muslims didn't?
Conversion of merchants was the strategy used by Buddhist and Christian missionaries employ to spread their faith.
Why were Muslims affected by the Indian culture?
The muslims that had been converted my traders and merchants still lived and had lived in Indian cultures. With such close boundraies it's no surprise that Muslim Mosques and other buildings had Indian art and architecture styles.
Which of the following describes trade on the Indian ocean during the post classical era but not during the age of exploration?
Muslim merchants from the Arabian Peninsula controlled Indian Ocean trade.
