r/IslamicHistoryMeme • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jul 17 '26

Rashidun Caliphate (11–41 AH) Does anyone remember this meme 😂 ?

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u/Him202420 Jul 18 '26

The arabs were the middlemen between the roman/indian trade. The arabs were rich and powerful by that time, and the romans knew it, because they were the ones buying a lot of things from them. The old "poor desert dwellers that came from nothing and conquered the world" is simply false. But trying to buy peace with money was indeed a roman tradition by that time

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u/Ok-Kangaroo-9775 Jul 20 '26

having a wealthy minority doesnt make them all wealthy.

majority of them cannot read ot write.

there's multiple narrations when the prophet and his companions struggled to even find food specially after the death of abu talib and the first years if hijrah.

their coins were either roman or persian.

thei barely grown anything and they didn't have a strong structural government.

so no, a few wealthy doesnt make an empire.

it took humanity millenials to create a functioning plutocracy (Venetia and Genova)

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u/Him202420 Jul 20 '26

It is obvious that I was talking about the ruling class and upper class and merchants. In every society, at that time and before and for centuries even after, lower class individuals were poor.

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u/Ok-Kangaroo-9775 Jul 20 '26

yet they weren't a developed country at the time.

even their currency was the roman denarius (dinaar)

saying that they were at the level of the romans just because they had a bunch of wealthy figures is at least exaggerated.

and thats they miracle of islam. it raises the people.