Respected member and pms aspirants 2013, lets start preparing islamic history for the upcoming pms exam. Interested members are required to post the topic they need help in or the topic they prepare the best
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Lets starts from the first topic " Humanity at the dawn of Islam"
Following topics can be discussed in this regard:
1- Byzantine empire
2- Babylonian empire
3- Sassanid empire
4- Social, Political, Religious, Economic condition of these Empires
5- Conditions of Arabia before the advent of Islam.
6- Impact of Islam on these civilizations.

Arabia, the birth place of islam, was the original home of the semtic race (the race that contributed to the ancient civializations, hazrat musa, hazrat isa and hazrat muhammad s.a.w.w. Were the sons of this race). In course of time the migrated to the fertile crescent and became known as the babylonians, the assyrians and the hebrews (jews) in history. About 3500 b.c on of the branch of the semitic race left their original home and settled on the tigris-euphrates valley which had been populated by a highly civilized community, the sumairian. As a result of their(of the semitic race) close interaction with the sumairian there flourished a great civilization.
With the conquest of percia by alexender the great, the eastern civilization entered into europe and the greek develop it in various ways. Hellenic civilization developed from the interaction of eastern and western cultures.

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mr. dr with in few days i will post my own note but these days am bzi with my tasks

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ok, i'll be waiting for your notes, till then i'll share with you some knowledge regarding IH already shared on this forum...

Arabia Before Islam :
THE Arabian peninsula forms a vast rectangle of some one and a quarter million square miles area. It is bordered in the north by the chain of territories commonly known as the Fertile Crescent—in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine—and their desert borderlands; in the east and south by the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean; in the west by the Red Sea. The south-western districts of the Yemen consist of well-watered mountain country which from an early date permitted the rise of agriculture and the development of flourishing and relatively advanced sedentary civilizations. The remainder of the country consists of waterless steppes and deserts broken only by an occasional oasis and crossed by a few caravan and traderoutes. The population was mainly pastoral and nomadic, living by its flocks and by raiding the peoples of the oases and of the cultivated neighbouring provinces.
From very early times Arabia has formed a transit area between the Mediterranean countries and the further East, and its history has to a large extent been determined by the vicissitudes of east-west traffic.
The national tradition of the Arabs divides the Arabian people into two main stems, the northern and the southern.
The dominant feature of the population of central and northern Arabia in this crucial period immediately preceding the rise of Islam is Bedouin tribalism. In Bedouin society the social unit is the group, not the individual. The latter has rights and duties only as a member of his group. The group is held together externally by the need for self-defence against the hardships and dangers of
desert life, internally by the blood-tie of descent in the male line which is the basic social bond. The livelihood of the tribe depends on their flocks and herds and on raiding the neighbouring settled countries and such caravans as still venture to cross Arabia. It is by a kind of chain of mutual raiding that commodities from the settled lands penetrate via the tribes nearest to the borders to those of the interior. The tribe does not usually admit of private landed property, but exercises collective rights over pastures, water sources, etc. There is some evidence that even the flocks were at times the collective property of the tribe and that only movable objects were subject to personal ownership.
The political organization of the tribe was rudimentary. Its head was the Sayyid or Sheikh, an elected leader who was rarely more than a first among equals.
The life of the tribe was regulated by custom, the Sunna or practice of the ancestors.
The chief social limitation of the prevailing anarchy was the custom of blood-vengeance, imposing on the kin of a murdered man the duty of exacting vengeance from the murderer or one of his fellow tribesmen.
Their religion was not personal but communal. The tribal faith centred around the tribal god, symbolized usually by a stone, sometimes by some other object.