PROPHET MUHAMMAD (570 BC - 632 BC) 
Origin of a simple family, Muhammad upholding and spreading one of the world's largest religion, Islam. And at the same time appear as a strong leader, genuine, and effective. Today thirteen centuries after his death, his influence remains strong and deep and rooted.
Most of the people listed in this book is a lucky creature because it was born and raised in centers of human civilization, berkultur high and where political turnover nations. Muhammad was born in the year 570 AD, the city of Mecca, in the little southern Arabian Peninsula, a place that time is the most backward regions in the world, far from the center of commerce, art and science. Becoming an orphan at the age of six, grew up in a situation around a simple and humble. Islamic sources mention that Muhamnmad an illiterate. New economic situation began to improve at the age of twenty-five years old when he married a widow is located. However, until near the age of forty years barely visible clues keluarbiasaannya as human beings.
Generally, the Arabs at that time did not embrace any particular religion but a pagan in the town of Mecca there is a small number of adherents, followers of Judaism and Christianity, and the great possibilities of Muhammad for the first time they heard about the existence of one Almighty God, who set up throughout nature. When he was forty years old, Muhammad believed that God Almighty is to communicate something to him and chose to be a disseminator of trust is right.
During three years of Muhammad's religion spread only limited to close friends and relatives. Just enter the year 613 when he began performing in public. As soon as he gradually got followers, the ruler of Mecca looked at as a dangerous person, builder troublemakers. In the year 622, worried about his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina, the city is 200 miles north of Mecca. In that city he was offered a position of political power that is quite convincing.
The events of this pilgrimage is an important turning point for the life of the Prophet. In Mecca he was difficult to obtain a small number of followers, and followers in Medina increasingly so in a fast tempo he can get the effect that makes it a real power holders. In subsequent years while the followers of Muhammad grew like mushrooms, a series of battles broke out between Mektah and Medina. This war ended in 630 with Muhammad's victory at the party, returned to Mecca as conquerors. The remaining two and a half years of his life he witnessed enormous progress in terms of rapid Arab tribes embraced Islam. And when Muhammad died in 632, he had confirmed himself as the effective ruler across the southern Arabian Peninsula.
Bedewi tribes have a tradition passed down through generations as the soldiers are tough and brave. But their numbers are not a lot and always tempted divisions and confront each other with each other. That's why they can not beat the army of the kingdoms established in the agricultural area in the northern hemisphere. But, Muhammadlah first person in history, thanks to a strong impetus to the oneness of God belief, the small Arab armies capable of an astonishing series of conquests in human history. In the northeast of the New Persian Empire Arab stand Sassanids wide. In northwestern Arabia stands the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire with Constantinople as its center.
Judging from the angle the number and size, clearly would not be able to deal with Arabs. However, in the field of battle, Arab soldiers who burned his spirits with lightning strokes to conquer Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. 642 In Egypt captured from the grip of the Byzantine Empire, and meanwhile the Persian army got beat in a very decisive battle Qadisiya year in Nehavend 637 and 642 years.
However, large-scale conquest - under the leadership of Companions of the Prophet and his successor Abu Bakr and Umar ibn al-Khattab - did not show signs stop there. In the year 711, Arab armies had swept out of North Africa to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. From there they turned north and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and berated Visigothic kingdom in Spain.
Power Map of the Islamic Empire around 632-740
Apparently, not all of the conquest of the region is permanent. The people of Persia, although still remain faithful followers of Islam, take back its independence from Arab hands. And in Spain, after the war seven centuries finally were defeated by the Christians. Meanwhile, Mesopotamia and Egypt are two ancient cultures birthplace, remain in the hands of Arab as well as the entire northern coast of Africa. Religion of Islam, of course, continue to spread from one century to another century, stepped away from the conquered areas. Generally millions of adherents of Islam spread in Africa, Central Asia, especially Pakistan and northern India and Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new Islamic religion is a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, almost the opposite: the existence of the new religion became the main causes disunity.
What is the influence of the Prophet Muhammad the most fundamental of human history? Like other religions, Islam has an enormous influence on its adherents. That is why the spreader-spreader major religions of the world can all be places in this book. If measured by the number, the number of adherents of Christian Religion to double the size of the followers of Islam, naturally arises the question what the reason of placing the order of the Prophet Muhammad's higher than the Prophet Jesus in the list. There are two main reasons that so grip me. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than the role of the prophet Jesus of Christian Religion. Even if Prophet Jesus responsible for the principal teachings of Christian morals and ethics (to a certain extent different from Judaism), St.. Paul is the main spreader character of Christian theology, penyebarnya figure, and author of the largest part of the Old Testament.
Instead Muhammad was not only responsible for the theology of Islam but at the same time also against the main points of ethical and moral. Moreover he is "registrar" Book of Holy Quran, a collection of revelations to Muhammad that he believed came directly from God. The vast majority of the revelation was copied with great sincerity during Muhammad was still alive and then collected in a form that does not tergoyangkan shortly after he died. Al-Quran is thus closely related to the views of Muhammad and his teachings because he relied on God's revelation. In contrast, none of which is so detailed collection of the teachings of Jesus can still be found in the present. Because the Koran for Muslims to some extent as important as the gospel for the Christians, the influence of Muhammad through the medium of the Quran teramatlah magnitude. Possible influence of Muhammad in Islam is greater than the influence of Jesus and St. Paul in the Christian world combined. Measured from the purely religious angle, it seems that the influence of Muhammad equivalent to Jesus in the history of humanity.
Furthermore (unlike Jesus) Muhammad is not only religious leaders but also leaders of the world. The fact is, as the driving force against the motion which carried the Arab conquest, the influence of political leadership is in leading position all the time.
From various historical events, one might say it could happen without leadership from someone special their heads. For example, the colonies in South America might be able to liberate themselves from Spanish colonialism even though Simon Bolivar was never there in the world. But, this example does not apply to the movement which carried out the conquest of the Arab nation. No similar incidents before Muhammad and there's no reason to deny that the conquest could occur and succeed without Muhammad. The only similarity in terms of conquests in human history in the 13th century that some terpokok thanks to the influence of Chingiz Khan. This conquest, although wider scope than what the Arab nation, it is not able to prove reliability, and now the only areas occupied by the Mongols was the same region before the time of Chingiz Khan
This clearly shows a big difference with the conquest by the Arabs. Extending from Iraq to Morocco, extending the chain that united Arab nation, not just thanks to Islamic belief but also from the Department of Arabic, history and culture. Al-Quran central position among the Muslims and its written in Arabic, is a likely reason why the Arabic language is not divided into dialects that berantarakan. If not, may already be happening in the century to the l3. Arab differences and the division into several states would occur, of course, and in fact did so, but the divisions that are most-part it should not necessarily make us negligent that their unity is still tangible. But both Iran and Indonesia are both populous Muslim country and both oil producers, are not joined in the attitude of the oil embargo in the winter of 1973 to 1974. Instead of goods is not by chance that all Arab countries, exclusively Arab countries, which take the oil embargo.
So, it is possible we are witnessing, conquests which made the Arabs in the 7th century continue to play an important role in human history to date. From this aspect I assess the peerless combination between their religion and worldly terms attached to the influence of Muhammad himself, so I think Muhammad was a private in the sense of the most influential man in human history.
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