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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
1. A History
Authors : Brian Wichmann, David Wade
Published in: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The bare historical facts concerning the origin of the religion of Islam are these—The Qur’ān, the Holy Book of Islam, began to be revealed to the Prophet Muhammad when he was forty years old, circa 610. These revelations continued until his death in 632, by which time their strict monotheistic message had become so widely accepted that the new religion had largely supplanted the ancient paganism of the Arabian Peninsula. The rapid, widespread acceptance of Islam also introduced a quite new sense of unity among the various Arabian tribes. For a list of key dates, see Appendix B.