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Brief History of the

origins of Islam
Muhammad and
the born of Islam
• Islam borns in the light of History

Sources:
• Hadith Validity?
• Chains of authorities /falsification

• Importance of Quran (religious and historical


way)
The life of the Prophet
Muhammad
• Difficult childhood
• Noble/rich relatives

Abu Talib
Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib’
(The Paradise Lion/ Allah’s Lion)

 Banu-hashim noble branch


 High respect in the Mecca
The life of the
Prophet Muhammad
• Marriage  Khadija
• Starts to preach in Mecca around the year
610 c. e.
 Monotheism
 Marvels of God

Note: Allah is the father of Jesus Christ


The life of the Prophet
Muhammad
• Relations with other prophets? Or students of those
prophets?

Ali (nephew)
OR  Revelation?  Iqra and the Archangel Gabriel
(illiterate or not?)
 Has its roots in the word “recite”

Ali (nephew)
Perfect gramar
 New rules

• Skills as judge and arbitrator


• Yatrib (3 jew tribes and 2 arab tribes)

• Hijra. He starts his journey to Yatrib/Medina (July 16th, 662


c.e)
He arrives to Medina September 24th 354-355
What is Islam?

• The ones who accept the Islam


make a community called
UMMA
• Islam  submission to Allah
• Muslim  the one who submits
to Allah
Abraham
Monotheism
Religions of Abraham
Sarah
Aghar
wife
slave

Ishmael
Isaac first-born
illegitimate
second son
legitimate

Hebrews/ Ishmaelite/
Jews Arabs
Yahveh/Jeovah = God/Allah
Peoples of the book

• Muhammad
• The Quran
• Jesus
• Islam
• Bible (old/new
• Moses testament)
• Torah(Talmud) • Christianism
• Judaism
Pew Center, Washington DC (http://pewresearch.org/
• pilgrimage

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