What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism and what similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

Answer 1

Islam represented a highly successful, prosperous, and expansive civilization, encompassing parts on Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. While Chinese culture and Buddhism provided the cultural anchor of East Asia during the postclassical millennium and western Eurasiam, the realm of Islam touched on both of them and decisively shaped the history of the entire Afro-Eurasin world. The sudden emergence and rapid spread of a huge empire that stretched from Spain to India. A new and innovative civilization took shape, drawing on Arab, Persain, Turkish, Greco-Roman, South Asain, and African cultures. It was the most influential of the new third-wave civilization. Then the broad reach of Islam generated many of the greatest cultural encounters. Islamic civilization challenged and provoked Christendom, penetrated and was transformed by African cultures, and also took root in India, Central Asia, Southeastern Asia. The spread o Islam continued in this modern era, perhaps 1.2 billion people identified as Muslims.

In comparison with Buddha, Jesus, and Muhmmad they both reflected onn prevailing patriarchal values, even as they both offered women new opportunities. Muhmmad and Jesus both beliebed in one god, while Muhmmad called his god "Allah." They both also were messengers of religious subjects.

Christanity, Islamic, and Buddhism believed in a moral society.