The Night Journey
In many traditional teaching stories there comes a point at which the protagonist, having gone through numerous hardships, continu…
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The Messenger
Mohammad never thought nor claimed to be inventing a new religion. He never sought power nor took advantage of his situation or st…
Mount Hira’
Tradition states that one day, when he was about forty years old, Mohammad was alone and asleep in the cave on Mount Hira when he …
The Year of the Elephant
Tradition tells that Abraha, the Abyssinian Christian ruler of Yemen, attacked Mecca with a herd of elephants imported from Africa…
The History of Mohammad
Less than one hundred years after Mohammads death in 632 the first Muslim historians began to write about his life. These were Muh…
Mohammad at the Ka’ba from an Ottoman (Turkish) epic about the life of Mohammad, completed around 1388, Illustration by Nakka
Like other pre-Axial societies, pre-Islamic Arab beliefs involved a pantheon of accessible deities with whom people could communic…
Approximate locations of some of the important tribes and Empire of the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam (approximately 6
Pre-Islamic Religion on the Arabian Peninsula The peoples of Arabia were predominately polytheistic, and Mecca was the place of th…
Pre-Islamic Arab Society..
Most of the Arabian Peninsula remained outside the direct control of these two world powers. The predominance of vast barren deser…
Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
For all their differences, the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires shared certain common features and faced similar challenges. Their r…
The golden tree at the end of the way by Tambako the Jaguar on Flickr
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