Not long after, Abu Bakr accepted Islam and was the first person outside the family of Muhammad to openly become a Muslim.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

Through close contacts with the Arabian peninsula for more than one-thousand years, the Somali and Afar ethnic groups in this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

The book emphasizes what importance Islam has given to manners and etiquette along with the worship of God, citing the traditions of the first four Imams of the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid school of thought.

It was in this period that Islam first arrived in the region.

Although Muslims had passed through Malaysia as early as the 10th century, it was not until the 14th and 15th centuries that Islam first established itself on the Malay Peninsula.

It was the birthplace of monotheism, first of Judaism and later of Christianity and contains sites sacred to several Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze and Bahai.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

:< BLOCKQUOTE > For almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam.

Within classical Islamic jurisprudence — the development of which is to be dated into the first few centuries after the prophets death — jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates, rebels, highway robbers and dissenters renouncing the authority of Islam.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

Near Eastern antiquities, the second newest department, dates from 1881 and presents an overview of early Near Eastern civilization and " first settlements ", before the arrival of Islam.

Mosques first arrived in the Ottoman Empire ( mostly present-day Turkey ) during the 11th century, when many local Turks converted to Islam.

Manama and its inhabitants were first introduced to Islam during the 7th century and by the 9th century began to lean to a more conservative almost socialist belief system that caused considerable friction with the surrounding Muslim lands.

Jabal al-Nour is where Muhammad is believed to have received the first revelation of God in Islam | God through the Archangel Gabriel.

From the 8th century, the Mutazilite school of Islam, compelled to defend their principles against the orthodox Islam of their day, looked for support in philosophy, and are among the first to pursue a rational Islamic theology, called Ilm-al-Kalam ( scholastic theology ).

Noah is not the first prophet sent to mankind, according to the Quran ( The first prophet according to Islam is Adam, who was the first man and thus the first prophet as he was the only one to deliver the message at that time ).

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

In Western philosophy, the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire marked the ending of Hellenistic philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of Medieval philosophy, whereas in Eastern philosophy, the spread of Islam through the Arab Empire marked the end of Old Iranian philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of early Islamic philosophy.

The power of the Buddhist Maharajas was further undermined by the spread of Islam.

The caliph sent a sizable force with Gennadius to spread Islam and expand the Arab empire in Africa in 665.

Uqba ibn Nafi and Abu Muhajir al Dinar did much to spread Islam and Arab rule.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

During the Middle Ages, Islam spread through the regions.

Out of this mix developed the Berber people, whose language and culture, although pushed from coastal areas by conquering and colonizing Carthaginians, Romans, and Byzantines, dominated most of the land until the spread of Islam and the coming of the Arabs.

The most significant forces in the country's history have been the spread of Islam, Arabization, Ottoman and French colonization, and the struggle for independence.

However, similar explanations can be claimed for the spread of Islam and Buddhism — yet none of them are historical explanations.

Jews have interacted with Muslims since the 7th century, when Islam originated and spread in the Arabian peninsula, and many aspects of Islam's core values, structure, jurisprudence and practice are congruent with Judaism.

By serving as a buffer state between Christians and Muslims, the Khazars helped to block the western spread of Islam in Europe.

Upon the spread of Islam, libraries in newly Islamic lands knew a brief period of expansion in the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and Spain.

Although these western empires had little political influence on the Nigerian savanna before 1500hu they had a strong cultural and economic impact that became more pronounced in the 16th century, especially because these states became associated with the spread of Islam and trade.

Muslim rule spread through conquest and this indirectly coerced many to convert to Islam.

Sierra Leone's dense tropical rainforest partly isolated it from other precolonial African cultures and from the spread of Islam.

Through commerce, Islam spread amongst the Somali population in the coastal cities of Somalia.

In the seventh century AD, the Soghdian Iranians, who profited most visibly from this trade, saw their province of Mawarannahr overwhelmed by Arabs, who spread Islam throughout the region.

Islam had been introduced into the western Sudan by Arab traders from North Africa and spread rapidly after the conversion of many important rulers.

From the eleventh century, by which time the rulers of the Sudanic empires had embraced Islam, it spread south into the northern areas of contemporary Côte d ' Ivoire.

Antonio Santosuosso and other historians detail how the new governor of Al-Andalus, ' Uqba b. Al-Hajjaj, again moved into France to avenge the defeat at Poitiers and to spread Islam.

" Historian Robert Payne on page 142 in " The History of Islam " said " The more powerful Muslims and the spread of Islam were knocking on Europe's door.