Based on the belief on that Mohammed (570-632) is God’s last prophet
• Acceptance of Koran as containing both the word and law (Sharia) of God
• Arab hegemony from the 7th to the 11th centuries
• The Arabic Islamic world stretched from Spain (Moors) to Central Asia and was the scientific
center of the world (as Greek before and then Latin, Arabic was a synonym of science and culture)
• Fastest growing religion in the present