Name: 伊斯蘭教。伊斯蘭教：信仰帝國 (Islam: Empire of Faith)
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In Cairo, a muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer.

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It's the same call that sounds five times a day, every day,

Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it,

'I testify there is no other god but God.'

'I testify Muhammad is the messenger of God.

Islamic civilisation has been one of humanity's grandest achievements.

A worldwide power founded simply on faith.

A spiritual revolution that would shape the nations of three continets

For the West, much of the history of Islam has been obscured

behind a veil of fear and misunderstanding.

Yet Islam's hidden history is deeply, and surprisingly,

It was Muslim scholars who reclaimed the ancient wisdom of Greeks.

While Europe languished in the Dark Ages.

It was they who sowed the seeds of the Renaissance,

600 years before the birth of Leonardo da Vinci.

cultures across the globe have been shaped by Islamic civilisation.

But all this, began with the life of a single, ordinary man,

and the profound message he proclaimed would change the world forever.

To Muslims, the life of Muhammad is a story revered.

In its mysteries as much as its certainties,

Whatever we can tell about the Prophet, of course,

is screened through the filter of what has been preserved over the centuries

from all these different sources that are very adoring,

We do know that Muhammad was born in or around 570 AD

whose Bedouin tribes were locked in a constant state of tribal war.

Muhammad's parents gave him his first taste of life in the desert.

but he was sent off to live with the Bedouin

because the peopl lived in the town of Mecca

felt that the Bedouin were the holders of the deeper cultural Arab values.

as having lost their really authentic roots in Arab culture

By the time Muhammad was six, both of his parents had died

and he was taken under the protection of his uncle, chief of his clan.

Being an outsider gave him a singular perspective.

and developed very early on a passionate sense of concern

where clan and family relationships are your keys to everything...

is to face what it really feels like to be marginalised.

That obviously had a very deep impression on him as a young man.

In some ways, it was detrimental, of course, to grow up without parents.

He had many parents. He had many fathers.

He had many mothers. So it made him a child of everybody.

Muhammad's clan, like Arabs all across the Arabian peninsula,

would share the stories that had been told and retold for generations.

Pre Islamic Arabian civilisation was largely an oral culture

and there was tremendous respect and admiration

for people who could express themselves orally,

especially those who could recite poetry almost at the drop of a hat.

Some of the most important people in a tribe were the poets.

They sang of the glory of the tribe. They told the story of the tribe.

To the Bedouin, the word had a mystical importance.

Poets linked the tribe to its ancestors and celebrated values older than memory.

Poetry was the sinew that bound the Bedouin together,

celebrating their victories, lamenting their defeats.

The poems themselves, like the poems of Homer,

this war... this ethos of constant tribal warfare brings to people.

Warfare and conflict were the grim realities of a dangerous time.

Muhammad's uncle taught him the skills he'd need to survive

in a world where even a prophet would wield a bow and arrow.

In a wilderness punished by the elements and bereft of water,

rivalry over a single well could provoke a blood feud for generations.

A real rivalry. Real battles, and sometimes quite bloody.

So the allegiance of individuals was to the family, immidiately,

Without the tribe's protection, no one could endure.

Scattered across the peninsula were countless factions,

each defending its precious grazing lands, trade routes

You have to understand that most of the lands are dry.

So, water is something that everyone always considers precious.

For those of us in climates that are more heavily watered

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