I hadn't known as much about Islamic Culture as I learned from the background learned in class. I found it particularly interesting how the Ottomon Empire had so many situations and conflicts fall into place to allow for their great success. Various migrations from their ancestors, the perfect timing of the reign on the Mongol Soldiers and their eventual downfall from with contribution from the Black Death, and the Crusades causing the Byzantine Empire to never be the same gave way for the eventual success of the Ottomons. It was interesting to see how all of these events were related in making the eventual success of the Muslim people a possibility.
An interesting fact that I found out in this week's studies came with our studies of Mohammad. I hadn't known that Mohammad was given the honor of helping to reconstruct the Kabba when it was destroyed. This shows the reverence the Muslims had for Mohammad even before his initial legacy took off.
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I find it very intersting how all of the pieces had to fall together just at the right time in order for the Ottoman Empire to be created and prosper as it did. Just think if one of the three didn't happen at the time it did what the Empire might have become.
ReplyDeleteactually when mohammad was given that honor the people of mecca were not muslims, Islam did not exist at that time.. but that example shows how mohammad was honored and respected among the people..
ReplyDeletebefore recieving "the messege" mohammad was called the truethful and loyal "al-sadeq al-amin"
for he was known that he never lied and never betrayed anyone.