Chapter 9 (The Worlds of Islam)

In the homeland of Islam, there were tribal feuds and trading centers in the Arabian Peninsula. The people there recognized many gods, ancestors, and nature spirits. They highly appreciated oral poetry, which is interesting to me because I didn't think poetry existed back then. Mecca came to occupy a major role in Arabia. It was the home of the Kaaba and the Quraysh. Muhammad Ibn Abdullah who was born in Mecca, was the catalyst for the birth of new religion. It became a revolutionary message of monotheism. But tensions in Mecca and the Hijra started to arise, building the Umma in Medina. Soon war and alliances entered Mecca. Majority of the Peninsula was now under a unified Islamic state.