The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was born in Mecca in 570 AD He lived a pure and simple life and was respected by his people as an honorable and trustworthy. He often visited a cave in the hills Núr, outside Mecca, where he remained in prayer and meditation.
There also happened that at forty he had his first revelation and instruction to preach. Was severely persecuted by their fellow citizens. When these are made ready to kill him, in Mecca. God ordered him to emigrate to Medina, where he established the first Muslim state. At the time of his death in 633 AD, all of Arabia had accepted Islam, the Emperors of Byzantium and Persia, who sent the message Libya, attacked and rejected by this state, and a new wave of creative revolution Saudi spread across a whole and is getting ready to spread to far beyond it.
Under the reign of the first four caliphs, who were the closest companions of the Prophet, and combined them
their textual knowledge and spiritual authority, were crushed and conquered the Byzantine and Persian, and Islam gradually spread to India and China, in Asia to Morocco, in Africa and even Spain and Cecilia, in Europe. Currently there are 750 million Muslims in the world, about 550 million in 50 such Muslim states or states with a Muslim majority, and about 200 million worldwide. In Europe there are currently between 25 and 30 million Muslims, with significant presence in almost all European countries, whether communist or non-Communists.
In the past, Muslims contributed significantly in any field of human culture and civilization. In the context of the cultural crisis of our present times, Islam offers a different basis for the development of human personality organization of human culture and society.
