Реферат: Causes Of Islamic Conquest Essay Research Paper
organizational breakthrough of proportions unparalleled in Arabian world. How could have succeeded without rise of a state
capable of integrate Arabia?s fragmented society and draw on it to attain
well-defined political and military objectives.? Not too rash to suggest might have succeeded without Byzantine
and Sasanian troubles. Muslims succeeded because able to organize
effective conquest movement ? impact new religion of Islam which provided
ideological underpinnings for remarkable breakthrough in social
organisations ? truly an Islamic movement ? Islam set of beliefs preached
by Muhammad ? social and political ramifications sparked whole integration
process and hence ultimate cause of conquests? success. Question is why did they pursue expansionist
aims?? Religious reasons ? the
elite saw expansion as divine order or way forward ? clearly felt by
contemporaries to be profound effect ? look at social and political
changes.? Islam provides
ideological sanction for personal expansion aim.? Either God?s will or ideologically comfort for persona
desire. Much of elite ? Quraysh and Thawif and many Medinese
expand political boundaries to secure the trans-Arabian commerce ? or
recapture routes that had moved north. Ample evidence suggesting elite still interested in
trade ? Quraysh with long-standing links Syria may well have wanted to go
there ? financial advantages acquisition of properties, ability of state
to levy taxes, booty in wealth and slaves ? example ?Utba b. Abi Sufyan
Umar?s tax agent over Kinana tribe wanted to use money for trade. Expansion in order to preserve hard-won position at
top of the political hierarchy.? Policy of encouraging tribesmen to emigrate – upon
which continual dominance based itself dependent on conquest of new
domains in which emigrant tribesmen could be lodged ? early strategy then
to get Syria or Iraq or part of state?s drive to consolidate power over
all Arab tribes including those on Syrian desert and fringes of Iraq.? Process generated direct cashes with
Byzantine and Sasanian Empires ? led ultimately to conquest of Syria and
Iraq? – does not necessarily imply
conquest of Syria and Iraq conscious objective from the start. Absence of primary sources that might illuminate