Islam 1: Muhammad, the first Caliphate, and the core teachings
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Mohammed and the Kaba
After mecca violated a treaty, moha d took possession of the city and cleansed the khaba. He cleared out various icons and idols of different deities which he considered to be corruptions or pollutions in what was essentially a temple purely dedicated to the one god, allah. Not long after, mohammed died in 632. And this naturally raised a tremendous question. What do you do now that that carismatic leader is dead? We don't know exactly when this idea arose, but certainly in early islamic documents, we can see there was a common idea that the kaba had originally been built by abraham and ishmael,. But overtime it
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