"The history of Islam"

Essay by shazilHigh School, 12th grade June 2003

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This report I'm doing for history class is about Islam, how Islam started and who started it and what were the obstacles in the spreading of Islam. The book I'm reading is called "The Story of Islam" and it is really interesting; I like the way in which this author is able to go into such great detail about Islam. This book is pretty long and it took me a week and half to finish reading this, this book is pretty long and has about 283 pages and the publisher of this book is Ferozsons Ltd. This book is real easy to read because the author simplifies it with so many pictures. The reason why I picked this book is because I am a Muslim and I thought this might be an easy and interesting subject to write my book report on, plus the cover of this book is real interesting, and the author who wrote this book is real popular and interesting.

I've heard so many good things about this author; he's such a good writer.

The first thing that we should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word Islam means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gotama Buddha, and Confucianism after Confucius. Plus it was not named after a tribe like Judaism after the tribe of Judah and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the true religion of Allah (God); its name represents the central principle of Allah religion the total agreement to the will of Allah. The Arabic word Islam means the obedient or gives up one's will to the only true god who's worthy of worship Allah and anyone who does that is a...