Trade contributed to the spread of Islamic culture and led to a growing feeling of internationalism. BBC - Religions - Islam: Early rise of Islam (632-700) community, of the ummah, goes to the kalifs, and During these hundreds of years and expansion of the Islamic Empire . into the territory of the Pechenegs, where he taught and converted individuals to Islam. [27] That theory does not explain the continuing existence of large minorities of Christians during the Abbasids. The fight was mainly over power. The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith By Sir, The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith, By Thomas Walker Arnold, p. 183, The History of Iran By Elton L. Daniel, pg. European points of view started changing with the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in new descriptions of the period of Islamic rule in Spain as a "golden age" (mostly as a reaction against Spain's militant Roman Catholicism after 1500)[citation needed]. I'll leave it to you to decide. It depends on the context and the manner in which the "new" serves better than "what came before.". They were clearly Muslim, and They replaced Greek, Persian, and Coptic with Arabic as the main administrative language and reinforced an Arab Islamic identity. Following the brutal Mongol invasion of Central Asia under Hulagu Khan and after the Battle of Baghdad (1258), Mongol rule extended across the breadth of almost all Muslim lands in Asia. Did War Spread Islam? - Synonym A sense of unity grew among many though not all provinces and gradually formed the consciousness of a broadly Arab-Islamic population. He changes his name to reflect his new religion. which is now dynastic, the Umayyad Caliphate, by "[21], Only in subsequent centuries, with the development of the religious doctrine of Islam and with that the understanding of the Muslim ummah, would mass conversion take place. At the outset, they were hostile to conversions because new Muslims diluted the economic and status advantages of the Arabs.