Islam

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The reason why "Islam" is so popular in the Middle East is because prophet Mohammed (PBUH) was born in the Middle East in the city of Mecca or Makkah and at the age of 40 came with the religion of Islam. So basically why is Islam so popular in the Middle East its because its started there. Don't get me wrong it started at the beginning of time but then more and more people don't follow Islam so Allah (Arabic word for God) sent down messengers/prophets to follow people on the straight path.

Religion in also much more central to political and cultural importance in the Middle East as a region than Europe or even America. As Islam is the dominant religion in that region, its effects are much more pronounced.

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Islam religion is important to the follower of Islam where ever he is living. Only small percentage of world Muslims are in the Middle East. Muslims in the Middle East are only around 15% of total world Muslim population. So, Islam religion importance is not limited to the Middle East.

Rome was said to been founded by Romulus. However that was in the times of the kings. When we think of emperors, we think of the principate, which was founded by Augustus. Therefore, Augustus was the first emperor of Rome.

They eat all kinds of usual food except pork. Refer to question below.

St. Patrick was not a Muslim. He was a Catholic.

Yes. Islam arrived in Egypt by 640 C.E. and as far west as Morocco by 680 C.E.

The Qur'an didn't say that the Arab are the best among nations, but it says that the offspring of Adam who are all human beings, are honored and preferred to all other creatures of God, God says about this: "We have honored the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favors, above a great part of our creation." (Surat Al-Israa', verse 70)

All of ancient Israel's history, the history that Jews celebrate as the history of God's people, happened in the same place that Jesus lived and died. This place is modern-day Israel. Therefore, the region is seen as holy by both religions.

Abu Bakr ruled as a Caliph for 27 months.

Albania is having 2.522 million Muslims (constituting 79.9% of total population) per Pew Forum study as of October 2009. See link below.

There are a wide variety of reasons as to why Crusaders attacked Moslems.

1) Impeding Control of Jerusalem: The stated mission of the Crusades was to take back control of Jerusalem for Christendom. If they were trying to take it back, it follows logically that somebody else was in possession of it. As Moslems were in possession of Jerusalem and they did not wish to just give the city up, Crusaders attacked them.

2) Protecting Byzantium: The real reason for the Crusades was to prevent the Byzantine Empire from being completely overrun. The Seljuks, Ottomans, and Abbassids were all moving into Eastern Anatolia and threatening the survival of the Byzantine Empire. These states were all Moslem, so necessarily any policy to contain them militarily would require Moslem deaths.

3) Religious Discrimination: Many Christians saw Moslems as infidels who had knowingly rejected Christ and were thus fit to die. (This view has changed with time.)

For a more detailed analysis, see the link below.

November 1979 the US embassy in Tehran was taken over. tThe hostages were held 444 days. They are set free 10 minutes after Reagan was sworn in as POTUS.

Judaism is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people. Originating in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, it is considered by Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the Children of Israel. According to traditional Rabbinic Judaism, God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. This was historically challenged by the Karaites, a movement that flourished in the medieval period, retains several thousand followers today and maintains that only the Written Torah was revealed. In modern times, liberal movements such as Humanistic Judaism may be nontheistic.

Judaism claims a historical continuity spanning more than 3000 years. It is one of the oldest monotheistic religions, and the oldest to survive into the present day. The Hebrews / Israelites were already referred to as Jews in later books of the Tanakh such as the Book of Esther, with the term Jews replacing the title "Children of Israel." Judaism's texts, traditions and values play a major role in later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity, Islam and the Baha'i Faith. Many aspects of Judaism have also directly or indirectly influenced secular Western ethics and civil law.

Jews are an ethnoreligious group that includes those born Jewish and converts to Judaism. In 2007, the world Jewish population was estimated at 13 million, of whom about 40% reside in Israel and 40% in the United States.[1 The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism. A major source of difference between these groups is their approach to Jewish law. Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and Jewish law are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, and that they should be strictly followed. Conservative and Reform Judaism are more liberal, with Conservative Judaism generally promoting a more "traditional" interpretation of Judaism's requirements than Reform Judaism. A typical Reform position is that Jewish law should be viewed as a set of general guidelines rather than as a set of restrictions and obligations whose observance is required of all Jews. Historically, special courts enforced Jewish law; today, these courts still exist but the practice of Judaism is mostly voluntary. Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and the many rabbis and scholars who interpret these texts.

they had strong family/tribal bonds and were moral and guarded honor and dignity

The Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates conquered North Africa and set Islam as the official religion. People in this area converted both because of the economic and social benefits of conversion and/or because they genuinely believed that the new religion was more correct.

It depends on what you mean by "Ghana's Kings"

If you are referring to the Kingdom of Ghana (which was located primarily in present-day Mali), Islam provided a legal and organizational basis in the latter period of that empire and also facilitated its expansion. Islam passed to West Africa along the commercial routes across the Sahara and the Kings of Ghana liked what they saw and heard.

If you are referring to the Akan Kingdoms which used to exist inside of the present-day country of Ghana, these were not influenced at all by Islam and remained consistently Animist. There were also kingdoms belonging to the Dagombe peoples in the north of Ghana that were Muslim, but as they did not exert a strong regional influence, it is unclear why they would have converted save for having been convinced by religious arguments.

Iran has charismatic leader like, Ahmadinedja. He has anti-western polIcy and called Israel, United States as his enemy. Today he has ambition to create nuclear weapon.

So with his spirit and policy, it will make Hezbollah in Libanon jyhad more against Israel and western.

For Israel people, it becames a "threat" for their national security, so all of them keep wathing Ahmadinedja's policy.

Under the last of the Umayyad , the Arabian empire extended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from the confines of Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean . And if we retrench the sleeve of the robe, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of march of a caravan . We should vainly seek the indissoluble union and easy obedience that pervaded the government of Augustus and the Antonines ; but the progress of Islam diffused over this ample space a general resemblance of manners and opinions. The language and laws of the Quran were studied with equal devotion at Samarcand and Seville : the Moor and the Indian embraced as countrymen and brothers in the pilgrimage of Mecca ; and the Arabian language was adopted as the popular idiom in all the provinces to the westward of the Tigris .

The Muslim conquests brought about the collapse of the Sassanid Empire and a great territorial loss for the Byzantine Empire . The reasons for the Muslim success are hard to reconstruct in hindsight, primarily because only fragmentary sources from the period have survived. Most historians agree that the Sassanid Persian and Byzantine Roman empires were militarily and economically exhausted from decades of fighting one another . The rapid fall of Visigothic Spain remains more mysterious however.

Jews and Christians in Persia and Jews and Monophysites in Syria were dissatisfied and sometimes even welcomed the Muslim forces, largely because of religious conflict in both empires.[2] In the case of Byzantine Egypt , Palestine and Syria , these lands had only a few years before been reacquired from the Persians, and had not been ruled by the Byzantines for over 25 years.

Fred McGraw Donner , however, suggests that formation of a state in the peninsula and ideological (i.e. religious) coherence and mobilization was a primary reason why the Muslim armies in the space of a hundred years were able to establish the largest pre-modern empire until that time. The estimates for the size of the Islamic Caliphate suggest it was more than thirteen million square kilometers (five million square miles), making it larger than all current states except the Russian Federation .[3]

There are no holy Arab men or women. Holiness in Islam is only for God; the one and only one God with no partner, son, or father; and His books revealed to his prophets including the Psalms, Torah, Bible, and Quran.

Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566), also known as Suleiman I.

Umayyads are Muslims, they represented an important Islamic age in which they ruled the Islamic country & their capital was Damascus.at first they were good rulers but then they stopped behaving like proper Muslims and started drinking wine.

Most of them were Sunni Hanafis.

Religion played a mayor role in the arts of Islamic civilizations. Islams did not include depictions of humans in their art because the early Islam religion forbade the paintings of human beings, as this would bring idolatry followers. The Islam's painted in geometric forms, calligraphy arabesque, and floral designs.