The three great western religions---- Judaism, Islam and Christianity, share similarities and differences. Even though they have the common roots and common elements, differences emerged when these three religion grew. However, Judaism, Islam and Christianity stand out as the main religions in the world and their believes cover all over the continents, influence billions of believers in the world. Judaism, the most historical religion in all three, was founded by Abraham—the first and the greatest prophet of the God. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, which Jews only believe in one God.
The reciting of these visions became the basis and holy book of Islam, the Quran. Soon after, Muhammad began preaching within the city of Mecca where he formed a community or “ummah” (http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/). A little over ten years this ummah migrated to Medinah. This even is called the Hijrah and represents when Islam became a recognized religion and a political force (http://www.xenos.org/essays/islam.htm). Despite sharing the same origins, differences between the branches of Islam led them to each become unique and have their own way of life.
Analyzing Religion Tiffany Sanford Argosy University Hum215 Mounir Zalloua April 17, 2014 Islam and Mormon’s In comparing and contrasting world religion from an anthropological perspective, this individual selected Islam and Mormon religion. This individual will explain the various social customs and cultural issues. Describe each religion’s belief systems. Islam and Mormon’s how the two religions live together in a globalized world. According to Cultural Anthropology Schultz and Lavenda, Islam religion originated from the teaching of the prophet Muhammad which begins as far back as the 7th century
The main disagreement being that Christians believe that all men are created equal and Muslims believe that they are the chosen ones and all others are considered infidels. The First Crusades were a result of this. Palestine and Syria were dominated by Christians due to a counter attack after Muslims began trying to spread the Muslim Religion. About two hundred years later, these two states were then destroyed by Muslims. The ways of the world have changed, and things are not quite so barbaric.
About A.D. 700 Islam reached North Africa and most of Southeast Asia. Centuries later it came to Southern and Eastern Europe, West and East Africa, South Asia and it reached even China about A.D. 1000. Islam was carried by any man of this religion, no matter if he was a child, soldier, teacher or even the sultan. There are many things that are stated in the Quran, the holy book of Islam, that make perfect sense to me. The Quran states many things that will happen in this world, for example; the visible decay of godliness- were less people are praying and going to sermons, the manifestations in pride- especially among the very wealthy, people full of contention- thus the rise in lawsuits and lawyers, the sins of sex and alcohol
And for the Christians, it was where Jesus Christ was born and crucified, and the place where most of the New Testament took place. The city of Jerusalem had been concurred by the Muslims in during the 600s C.E., and after 400 years, the Christians want their Holy Land back. Therefore, that was how the First Crusades started, following by the Second – when the Muslims fought for their Holy Land back, and Third – when King Richard the Lionheart surrendered. The Crusades was basically a Holy War among the Muslims and the Christians, and how did they fight in it depended on what motivates them. The Christians and Muslims both have the same motive to fight in the crusades, however the Christians soon abuse their power as time passes.
The tribal and political divisions of the people combined with the rough terrain to foil attempted conquests by alien powers.While the early history of the Arab race is veiled in obscurity, historical tradition agrees in assigning Ishmael, the son of Abraham by Agar, as one of the important early ancestors of the race. In any case, the Semitic people who formed the permanent population of Arabia were joined several centuries before Mohammed by colonies of immigrants, chiefly Jews but also Christians, who settled among the native population. Thus three religious currents ran through pre-Islamic Arabia: the native Arabian, the Jewish and the Christian.Idolatry combined with elements of Biblical tradition to form the religion of the native Arab. Derived from a primitive form of animism, it consisted largely in the worship of the heavenly bodies. Though he seems to have believed in one God, the early Arab found little difficulty combining his weak monotheism with adoration of the fixed stars and planets, or at least with offering sacrifice to the angels who were believed to dwell in these stellar bodies.
The revelations that Muhammad received are now considered to pivotal text included within the Islamic Qur’an (Islamic bible). It is important to note when trying to understand Islam, that around 631 A.D. Muhammad was able to enter into the city of Mecca and convert all the Arabic tribes to Islam. Islam and Christianity are similar in many ways, however the main difference in the religions lies in their beliefs that God is singular, Jesus was just a prophet, Jesus was not crucified, heaven can be obtained by the works of man (doing good deeds, or bad deeds), and the concept of Trinity is unconceivable. Muslims believe that Allah will judge everyone in the afterlife based on whether or not they had a good belief system, and whether they fulfilled their obligations to Islam. Muslims are obligated to do the
Crusaders’ groups took to recuperate ground, around the end of the 13th century, in the Holy Land throughout brief incursions that demonstrated nothing more than displeasure to Muslim monarchs in the region. Menache mentions, “Such a conflict between ideology and practice was hardly unique to the crusades; it actually characterized the annals of medieval Christendom.” Thibault IV of Champagne commanded the Seventh Crusade, which took place from 1239 and ended 1241. This operation made possible to briefly recaptured Jerusalem, but it was lost again in 1244 to Khwarazmian forces enrolled by the sultan of Egypt. King Louis IX of France led the Eighth Crusade in 1249 that culminated in overthrow at Mansura. Due to the Crusaders bad times, the Mamluks took power in Egypt.
The first major change in the Islamic world from 600 to 800 CE was around 632 CE when Islam was created, a religious combination of Jewish, Christian, and Arabic faiths. In the beginning of 600 CE a man called Muhammad experienced a spiritual revelation and became the prophet of Allah, the one, true God, and spread his beliefs. Islam forever changed the Islamic world’s way of life influencing people to live a united, monotheist lifestyle and follow the Five Pillars of Islam which became the base of their religion. After Muhammad died the umma, or religious community, unraveled due to the empty role