The Importance of Language in Islam

The year in which the prophet mohammed led his followers away from the city ofm to the definitively named medina. From this beginning would grow a great empire. Within just a few generations, the religion of islam had spread with spectacular speed across not just the arabian peninsula but to the west, across northern africa and ultimately into iberia. We saw in our examination of late christian thought that it quickly became acceptable to read the bible in languages other than the original.