Chapter 9: The World of Islam Widespread and united afro-euro Asia. Islam emerged from the margins of Mediterranean and middle eastern civilizations and this began a religious finding. It started to spread across the Arabian peninsula. Allah is their one god. The Quran "the remembrance of God" was effectively summarized as a set of five requirements or pillars of Islam. by the time of Muhammad's death, the united a lot of the peninsula. He became known as Mecca. Men saw women as inferior and subordinate, men had authority over women. All of the property women-owned halves of it went towards their male counterparts.