Princes Jale Utlang October 4, 2019

GE-3 Sec C

“Write a brief historical account of the Islamic expansion in the Middle East”

The Muslim community expanded by conquest throughout the Middle East, and the
resulting Muslim state development provided the basis for the origin and flourishing of the recently
are revealed faith. Religion feuled the military conquest, but greed and politics also motivated it.
In the years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, the rise of the Arab Empire led to the creation
of caliphates, which dominated a large geographic area and pursued converts to Islamic faith. With
far-reaching mercantile networks, merchants, scholars, hunters, mathematicians, doctors and
philosophers, the citizens of the Islamic world created numerous sophisticated centers of culture
and science. The Arab conquerors generally respected the traditional Middle Eastern pattern of
religious pluralism with respect to the conquered populations, while respecting the practice of
other faiths in Arab territory, although the breakdown of historically religiously organized societies
resulted in widespread conversions to Islam.