Why were the Muslims successful conquerers?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The Muslim armies were successful in conquering new lands for a number of reasons. Their enemies the Persians and the Byzantines were weak because they had already been fighting a long war with each other, and Some of the Muslim fighters were nomads this helped them win battles because they were used to fighting battles in the desert and travelling a long way from home.

Answer 2

The main reasons in my view are:

• They were not fighting for personal ambitions for power or money but fighting for sake of God to free the will of people and let them choose their beliefs freely
• They were spreading justice, equal human rights, and peace among people

Answer 3

The early Caliphates (or Islamic Empires) expanded due to a number of factors. It is notable that although there are a few occurrences of Muslims carrying out the "Convert or Die" scenario, this is not the most common reason for Islam's expansion exclusively in terms of territory.

1) Arabia - What's that?: Prior to Mohammed, Arabia had been seen as a cultural and political backwater barely worth notice and therefore Mohammed's consolidation of the Arab Tribes was not seriously considered by the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires. This lead to a very porous southern defense and miscalculation of the Islamic Armies.

2) Byzantine-Sassanian Wars: Since the Byzantines and Sassanians considered each other the only real civilizations in the region, they fought each other numerous times in the early 600s C.E. over control of what is today East Turkey and Iraq. These were intense religious wars (Christian vs. Zoroastrian) and greatly weakened both empires at just the wrong time.

3) Tribal Command Structure: Arab Tribes and warriors owed their loyalty to their Sheikhs and leaders without fault because the Sheikh provided each person with all of the amenities and protection necessary to live a full life. Whenever the Arabs went to war, the Sheikhs could count on the ability to muster their tribesmen as soldiers without issue.

4) Support of the Locals: Since the Byzantine Empire and Sassanian Empire were engaged in religious zealotry, it stands to reason that they did not tolerate their religious minorities very well. The Muslims professed to (and did) treat minorities far better than either of these Empires. This led to religious minorities (especially Jews) from within the conquered territories helping Muslims to secure outposts and positions, freeing the Muslims to continue to spread the religion.

5) Citizenship by Conversion: The Islamic Empire was interesting in that being the leader or a person of import in the Empire was not contingent on ethnicity or place of birth as was the case of most prior empires. All a person had to do to gain power and prestige was to convert to Islam. This simple integration mechanism resulted in massive number of Persians, Berbers, and Turks converting to Islam. In fact, the furthest expansions of Islam (Spain, India, West China, South Russia, the Balkans) were all accomplished by non-Arabs (respectively Berbers, Persians/Mughals, Turkmen, Azeris, and Ottomans).

6) Warfare: The leaders charged with expanding the influence of Islam were thoughtful and diligent military leaders. Caliph 'Omar, who conquered much of the Levant, Egypt, Persia, and Iraq was well-known as a strategist and a fighter. It was this knowledge of warfare that allowed Muslim forces to expand the territory's influence.

7) Universality: Islam, as a religion, claims salvation for all people in all places, making the religion very attractive, especially to people born into low castes and bad economic positions.

Answer 2

Answer 1:

At the time of succesful Muslim conquests, the Islamic faith movement was fairly young as compared to the other religions that existed at the time. Because of this, the muslims, followers of Islam, were more united in purpose.

Their purpose was to fight against disbelieve, not being affraid of being killed. Martyrs are promised high rewards in the afterlive. And the Scripture allowed holy wars in certain instances.

The Enemies is Islam, at the time (some Christians and Idol worshippers), were not as closely united against attacks by the Muslim conquerers. They were at the time divided on issues of fighting, and easily became losers in the battles.

At the beginning of the first crusade, Christians were emotionally swept into a united cause to fight against the Muslim conquerers, by being promished entry into heaven if dying on the battlefield. This didn't last long as many christians started questioning the first pope's authority to forgive other people's sins.

Answer 3

The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. In all, eight major Crusade expeditions occurred between 1096 and 1291. The bloody, violent and often ruthless conflicts propelled the status of European Christians, making them major players in the fight for land in the Middle East.

Answer 4

The reason was mainly that Muslims didn't deprive any person in a country under their control from their human rights in faith, jusice, work, education, ... etc. Prophet Muhammad emphasized that all non Muslims in any place under Muslims control have the same rights as Muslims and violates this rule he will expelled from God forgiveness and prophet Muhammad (PBUH) satisfaction. They applied fairness, justice, tolerance, and mutual respect. Refer to questions below.

Answer 5

The Muslims were peaceful and did not fight and kill people if they did not convert, so they managed to get around easier.

Answer 6

They made a wish (dua) to there god Allah to help them in this battle.

they're wish came true and angels came down and helped them. That is how they won.

Answer 7

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