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.

Islam first spread to the region during the 13th century through Arab traders from present-day Malaysia and Indonesia.

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.

Greek trade networks spread throughout the Mediterranean region, while Roman trade expanded with the main goal of directing tribute from the colonized areas towards the Roman metropole.

The emergence of HIV / AIDS in the 1980s caused a dramatic shift in sexological research efforts towards understanding and controlling the spread of the disease.

) The leporids first appeared in the late Eocene and rapidly spread throughout the northern hemisphere ; they show a trend towards increasingly long hind limbs as the modern leaping gait developed.

A value system that promotes individualism, weakens social ties, and creates ambivalence towards children, is being spread or imposed via globalization, yet could adversely affect children's mental health.

The general purpose of spread betting is to create an active market for both sides of a binary wager, even if the outcome of an event may appear a priori ( prima facie ) to be biased towards one side or the other.

The point spread is essentially a handicap towards the underdog.

Robert Newstead used this term in a 1908 publication in the Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, to describe the contribution of house flies ( Musca domestica ) towards the spread of infectious diseases.

The rash has a centripetal, or " inward " pattern of spread, meaning it begins at the extremities and courses towards the trunk.

Many other counties were subsequently carved out of these as settlement spread towards the south, leaving Polk County many counties away from its former border with California.

Development started south of Lewisham Way in the late 1840s with the modest cottages at 2-22 Upper Brockley Rd and spread south and east towards Hilly Fields.

View towards the east side of the square showing the Confederate Memorial and the highway leading to Commerce, Georgia. In the city the population was spread out with 28. 1 % under the age of 18, 8. 0 % from 18 to 24, 30. 1 % from 25 to 44, 21. 4 % from 45 to 64, and 12. 5 % who were 65 years of age or older.

China's expansion of trade and investment on the African continent and the spread of Chinese-led infrastructure projects gives positive impression about China towards people in Africa.

* The receiving partner's legs are together turning to one side while looking up towards the penetrator, who has spread legs and is kneeing straight behind the other's hips.

Fado spread towards the African continent and Brazil, preferred performing destinations of some artists such as Ercília Costa, Berta Cardoso, Madalena de Melo, Armandinho, Martinho d ’ Assunção and João da Mata, among others.

This is similar to a gesture known in Greece as the Moutza, where the five fingers are spread wide and the palm is pushed towards the recipient.

All the fundamental researches of medical documentation, directed towards the study of the spread of comorbidity and influence of its structure, were conducted till the 1990s.

When the subtropical ridge is farther north than normal towards the Four Corners, monsoon thunderstorms can spread northward into Arizona.

Patterns of Yuan royal textiles could be found on the opposite side of the empire adorning Armenian decorations ; trees and vegetables were transplanted across the empire ; and technological innovations spread from Mongol dominions towards the West.

The army gathered at Lopadion by Manuel was supposedly so large that it spread across ten miles, and marched towards the border with the Seljuks via Laodicea, Chonae, Lampe, Celaenae, Choma and Antioch.

Much of this is oriented towards the use of herbicides, the majority of which may not be acceptable to the organic producer ( apart from non-synthetic substances like sulphur, which in some circumstances are accepted within Soil Association standards ) but in most cases there are manual techniques that can be used such as digging out the roots, mulching out or carefully timed cutting before seeds are able to spread.

Landings were made in the early hours of 10 July, on Licata at 02: 45 on Mollarella beach, on twenty-six main beaches spread along of the southern and eastern coasts of the island between the town of Licata Torre di Gaffe and Mollarella beach in the west, and Cassibile in the east, with British and Canadian forces in the east and Americans towards the west.

* Due to an apparent spread of the merger towards the center of the United States ( from both the western and eastern states ), portions of the Midwest also feature the merger:

Over the course of the next few days, most of the city centre was destroyed, reportedly through the accidental spread of a fire started in order to light the outward march of the Red Army towards Küstrin.

The number of seats is more favoured towards Labour than the geographic spread, with 33 Conservative seats, 24 Labour and 2 Liberal Democrat ( neighbouring each other around Solihull ).