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The ruling party had come to power on the wave of dissatisfaction with the Umayyads, cultivated by the Abbasid revolutionary Abu Muslim. [128] [129] Under the Abbasids Islamic civilization flourished. Most notable was the development of Arabic prose and poetry, termed by The Cambridge History of Islam as its "golden age". [130]
v. t. e. The history of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the timeline ranging from the inception of the Quran during the lifetime of Muhammad (believed to have received the Quran through revelation between 610 and 632 CE [1]), to the emergence, transmission, and canonization of its written copies. The history of the Quran is a major focus ...
Hayat Amamou, The Nature of Early Islamic Sources and the Debate Over their Historical Significance, Al-Muntaqa: New Perspectives on Arab Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (August 2018), pp. 68-79
In Islam in the Middle Ages they have successfully and very accessibly given an account of the origins and early development of classical Islamic civilization, including insightful discussions of the major cultural components of the polity. Particularly striking is the deft way they have informatively charted their course through the maelstrom that currently roils the historiography of early ...
In 1957, C.J. Kraemer published the non-literary papyri found in the 1930s at the site of Nessana, about 70 kilometres south of Gaza.¹ Leaving aside two hundred small fragments almost all datable to the late Roman period (500–630), there are eighty-four larger documents from late Roman and early Islamic periods.
3 days ago · Islam, major world religion that emphasizes monotheism, the unity of God (‘Allah’ in Arabic), and Muhammad as his final messenger in a series of revelations. As the literal word of God, the Qur’an makes known the will of God, to which humans must surrender (lending the name Islam, meaning ‘surrender’).
Jul 23, 2015 · By Behnam Sadeghi. Stanford University. The Prophet Muhammad disseminated the Koran in a piecemeal and gradual manner from AD610 to 632, the year in which he passed away. The evidence indicates ...
