Was Islam the first world system in human history and what is a world system?

aysia: Was Islam the first world system in human history and what is a world system?
– What gave Islam the potential to become a world system?
– How did Islam expand, evolve over time, and attract so many different people?
– What impact did this have on the world?

Answers and Views:

Answer by cunny
Still not a patch on Christianity

Answer by Mr. Bodhisattva
Islam is about the youngest of the major religions. As to the rest of your questions, maybe someone more qualified will answer.

Answer by Aariel
Islam was taken from Judaism and Christianity. Just as Christianity would be nothing without Judaism, Islam is nothing without those two. Each claims to be the newest, most updated and loved religion. The Jews, the Torah, Christians have the New Testament, and Muslims claim to be the Final Covenant. Jews, unlike Christianity and Islam, know that they are the chosen people, so they dont ever try and convert people, which is the only reason that TV shows may mention Judaism without offending anyone. Christians, and moreso Muslims, dont do this. They try to convert people, Christians, through feeding people, and Muslims, through force. If the Christians were a minority, the Muslims would hurt them like they do the Jews. But since the Christians are a majority like them, they use force on others to convert them

Answer by Curtis Edward Clark
Islam says the Messiah will return–with Jesus at his right hand, and Jesus will walk with him across the desert and no one will know who they are until the time that Jesus announces to the world who the messiah is!

So no, Christianity came first, and was turned into a ‘world system’ by the theology of St. Augustine, and the politics of Constantine.

What is a “world system”? Anything you want it to mean, I suppose. It isn’t used to describe religions because not one of them has taken over the world, but it seems that two of them have attempted it for 1500 years, beating each other back, with the jihadist elements wreaking havoc into the other system–which is still not a “world system” and cannot become one because we don’t force it on people. Islam will become one only if they can cower enough people with their violence into renouncing their own beliefs and embracing Islam. That is why it is a religion of violence.

They even have a system of systematically lying to each other for whatever purposes they need–if they say it for the purposes of Allah–including renouncing their own belief in Allah if it accomplishes killing the enemy. They simply claim afterward they lied in the name of Allah, and their lie is not only forgiven but rationalized. That is called Taquiya. Look it up.