Worlds of Islam

 Muhammad was born in 570. He was the birth of the new religion and taught Islam.

Muhammad explored, traded and traveled as far as Syria. He meditated outside the city

and believed he was Allah’s messenger to the Arabs.  They considered Muhammad to

be the last prophet of God.

     According to Strayer (2013), in Ways of the World, “For a thousand years, (roughly

600-1600), peoples claiming allegiance to Islam represented a highly successful,

prosperous and expansive civilization, encompassing parts of Africa, Europe, the Middle

East, and Asia. While Chinese culture and Buddhism provided the cultural anchor for

East Asia during the third wave millennium and Christianity did the same for Europe, the

realm of Islam touched on both of them and decisively shaped the history of the entire

Afro-Eurasian world.”(p.412) Therefore, all types of nationalities could relate to Islam.

The word “Muslim” means one who submits. Therefore, it was easy to understand what

the Gods wanted or expected. Muslim was based on the reciting power of word not just

something to follow or read.         

     Before my readings of Afro- Eurasian Connection, I personally didn’t know too much

about Islam or Muslims.  I remembered when I was a child, they wore really nice suits

and sold bean pies on the streets in San Francisco. They were mostly in the African

American or low income neighborhoods. I was raised Catholic but as a kid, Church was

all the same. However, the birth of Muslim stood and continues to stand for more than a

following of culture, but the Islam belief and religion.