The Emergence of Islam, 600-750

The Emergence of Islam, 600-750

Highlighting themes

A theme of the period that Berkey refers to as the emergence of Islam is that there is a large amount of movement and statements made by the new religion of Islam. This can be seen with the emigration of Muhammad to Medina, spreading the religion further as a contextual theme, and with the Dome of the Rock as an objective theme seen in the statement made through the architecture in which it was built along with the place that it was built upon, which Berkey argues was meant as a statement to both Judiasm and Christianity.

Jonathan P. Berkey

Berkey, Jonathan P. The Formation of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Cambridge University Press

600 - 750 AD / -23 - 132 AH

English

Themes