The Expansion of Islam

It is generally believed that Islam spread in the world at the point of sword. The Islamic Kings captured most part of the world especially in Asia and Africa and gave support to the expansion of Islam. This is also true that Islamic societies produced great scholars and men of science and technology which helped them in expansion of Islam. Besides this the teachings of prophet Muhammed based on world brother hood and equality of mankind had so much force that most to the societies who had no religion of their own adopted Islam as their religion. This book chronicles the expansion of Islam especially in Middle East, Asia and Africa. The Islamic societies had long wars with the Christians but they could not conquer the Christian territories to a great extent. Intellectual traditions in Islam and the visual arts in an Islamic background during the period c.1258-1503 have also been highlighted in this book, besides cultural patterning in Islamdom. It is hoped that the book will be found to be immense value to teachers, researchers, students and the reading public alike.