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