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All these books, in muslim belief, promulgated the code and laws that god ordained for those people. For example, the most important historiographical source for the origins of islam is the work of altabari. Most historians 1 accept that islam originated in mecca and medina at the start of the 7th century ce, approximately 600 years after the founding of christianity, with the revelations received by the prophet muhammad. Search the history of over 439 billion web pages on the internet. For more about islamic books as sources of prosopography, see the notes of my workshop presentation. The civilisation of medieval muslim spain is perhaps the most brilliant and prosperous of its age and has been essential to the direction which civilisation in medieval europe took. Islamic history is probably one of the most neglected fields in islamic education. From 711 to 1492 alandalus was the occidental frontier of islam. In 711 an army of arabs and berbers from north africa, united by their faith in islam, crossed the strait of gibraltar and arrived on the iberian peninsula. In this important as well as fascinating study, watt traces islams influence upon spain and european civilizationfrom the collapse of the visigoths in the eighth century to the fall of granada in the fifteenth, and considers spains importance as a part of the.
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