The Middle East
The Middle East
Module 1
Written Assignment 1
Essay Questions
1. What is Muhammad’s importance in the Muslim tradition? How do Islamic perceptions of him compare to those of the West?
The belief in Islam was developed after Muhammad was called to be a messenger of God. After the angel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad in 610 C.E., he spent the next twenty-two years receiving divine revelations from God. Like his prophetic predecessors, Muhammad used these divine messages to re-establish a religion and a religious “nation” or umma, based on the beliefs that his people had forgotten or deviated from. He went against the leaders of Mecca and their pagan ways to bring back a monotheistic religion that only honored and recognized the one true God. After the death of Abu Talib, Muhammad’s uncle and protector, he was invited to mediate the differences between the tribes of Yathrib, an oasis city about 200 miles north of Mecca. This journey, known as the hijrah in Arabic,......
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