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Muslims believe that the final and complete revelation of their faith was made through the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century CE. Muhammad was a devout and spiritual man born in Mecca in 570.
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The Muslim community spread through the Middle East through conquest, and the resulting growth of the Muslim state provided the ground in which the recently revealed faith could take root and flourish.
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Muslims enter Egypt and rout the Byzantine army. Muslims consider their conquest as the liberation of subjugated people, since in most instances they were under oppressive rule.
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Muslims in China have managed to practise their faith in China, sometimes against great odds, since the seventh century. Islam is one of the religions that is still officially recognised in China.
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Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance.
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Islam continues to spread through the continent of Africa, including Nigeria, which served as a trading liaison between the northern and central regions of Africa.
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Islam continues to spread throughout Asia. Malaysian traders interact with Muslims who teach them about Islam.
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The Ottoman Empire was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam. The Empire emerged in 1301, was at its height under Suleiman the Magnificent in 1520-66 and began its decline in 1571. It ended in 1922.
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The Mughal Empire ruled most of India and Pakistan in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was responsible for great works of architecture, notably the Taj Mahal, and the development of Urdu as a language.
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The first large group of Muslims in Britain arrived about 300 years ago. Today Britain's Muslims are almost all people who immigrated to Britain in the 1950s-70s, or their descendants
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This Islamic empire was based in what is today Iran. It lasted from 1501 to 1722 and was strong enough to challenge the Ottomans in the west and the Mughals in the east.
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Muslim immigrants from the Arab world voluntarily come to the United States until the Asian Exclusion Act is passed in 1924.
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The Nation of Islam is created in the U.S. by W. D. Fard. It is based on some Islamic ideas, but contains innovations, such as the appointment or declaration of Elijah Muhammad as a prophet.
