Talk:History of Islam

This outline is not the History of Islam, it's the History of Muslim Theology.

The wars and conquests are entirely excluded.

A proposed solution
As I see it, Islam is the name of a religion and its history would be the history of Islamic theology. In the special case of Islam I believe the history should be extended to include the shari'ah because it is so closely tied to the religion. (As for, example, the history of canon law belongs with the history of the pre-reformation/Catholic Christian church.)

However I observe that, for many people, Islam means the collection of national states whose rulers declare themselves Muslims. The collection is not coherent enough to be called a culture or a civilization. I propose calling it the Muslim heritage. I propose another wikibook about the the History of the Muslim heritage to cover the "wars and conquests" as well as the cultural triumphs and even a few defeats.

That said I intend to work on this outline and limit it to theology and the shari'ah. DKleinecke 20:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

this is not a history, it is about the beliefs of Islam
When I opened this book entitled "History of Islam" I expected to find historical references. Not beliefs and teaching, whoever said that the wars and disputes should not be included is incorrect. A person would have to include the Crusades in the history of Christianity, so why not here. I was looking to see how the religion got started. What I got when I read is that Mohamed had the Holy Koran reveled to him. Who was Mohamed and why was the Koran shown to him? I don't know, that is why I was looking at this book.