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Islamic missionary work or dawah means to "invite" (in Arabic, literally "invitation") to Islam. After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , from the 7th century onwards, Islam spread rapidly from the Arabian Peninsula to then rest of the world through either trade, missionaries, exploration or gradual conversions after conquests.
During the period of the second (or first, depending on the sources) Arab governor Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa (714–716), the principal urban centres of Catalonia surrendered. In 714, his father, Musa ibn Nusayr, advanced and overran Soria , the western Basque regions, Palencia , and as far west as Gijón or León , where a Berber governor was ...
After Muhammad's death in 632, from the available historical evidence, it appears that after Muhammad's death Muslims did not immediately embark upon daʿwah activities—during and after the rapid conquests of the Byzantine and Persian lands, they ventured little if at all to preach to local non-Muslims. Daʿwah came into wider usage almost a ...
The Unió redacted, in 1892, the Basis of Catalan regional autonomy, also known as Bases de Manresa, a program that demanded a specific autonomy for Catalonia. In 1901 Enric Prat de la Riba and Francesc Cambó formed the Regionalist League (Lliga Regionalista), which in 1906 led the successful electoral coalition Solidaritat Catalana, created ...
Various hadiths contain much greater detail. The Israʾ is the part of the journey of Muhammad from Mecca to the farthest place of worship, though the city is not explicitly mentioned. The journey began when Muhammad was in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, and the Archangel Gabriel came to him and brought Buraq, the heavenly mount of the prophets ...
Once Muhammad and Zayd ibn Harithah were outside the city walls, Muhammad almost collapsed. [27] They went a short distance outside of the town and stopped in an orchard that belonged to Utaba and Sheba. The owners of the orchard had seen Muhammad being persecuted in Mecca and on this occasion they felt some sympathy toward their fellow ...
Muhammad then took refuge in an orchard outside the city. The owners, Shayba and Utba ibn Rabi'a from the Meccan tribe of Shams, were in the garden at the time and took pity on him. They sent their slave Addas, a Christian, to give him a plate of grapes. [14] Muhammad accepted the gift and ate it, reciting "Bismillah" (In the name of Allah). [15]
Tala al-Badru Alayna (Arabic: طلع البدر علينا, romanized: Ṭalaʿ al-Badru ʿAlaynā) is a traditional Islamic nasheed that the Ansar Muslims of Medina sang for the Islamic prophet Muhammad upon his arrival at Medina. Many sources claim it was first sung as he sought refuge there after being forced to leave his hometown of Mecca ...