Were Arabs ever a superpower?

Answer 1

There were ARAB EMPIRES that were superpowers, and Saladin's Empire was a superpower.

Saladin was the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, was a 12th-century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit, in present day northern Iraq. He founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt, Syria, Yemen (except for the Northern Mountains), Mesopotamia, Mecca, Hejaz and Diyar Bakr.
The Middle East, c. 1190. Saladin's empire and its vassals shown in red (click on link just below); territory recovered from the Crusader states 1187-1189 shown in pink. Light green indicates Crusader territories surviving at Saladin's death.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Ayyubid.png
ALSO SEE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin

Also, the Turks, however, were a great power via the Ottoman Empire (Muslims of Asia that ruled the majority of the Muslim world- but the Turks are not Arab).

Please view maps
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/map_images/ottoman_empire.gif
http://img.romerican.com/post060329_ilie_birt_map.jpg
http://www.theglitteringeye.com/images/ottoman_empire_asia_1792.jpg
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/ottoman-empire-1580.gif

Answer 2

Yes. In less then 100 years after Mohamed they ruled from the Kilimanjaro to mid Spain.

By the way, don't be mistaken, they still ARE a superpower, only not in the economical, political or military sense. It is still Arabs in control from Iraq to Morocco (where they are a minority), and their language is used all over the muslim world, up to non-arabic countries as Pakistan or China.

This makes their cultural influence bigger then, for example, that of France or Japan.

For this reason "Divide and rule" has always been a major rule for powers, when dealing with Arabic countries.

Answer 3

1. turks arent arabs
2. not all arabs are muslim
3. yes there were arab superpowers, they took over spain for about 500 years, they always defended jerusalem during the crusades. arabs also started the first universities to ever exsist, founding algebra helped athoer people expand on mathematics.

Answer 4

yes- long long ago during the dark ages the Islamic religion took over most of Asia and Europe except for what we now know as western Europe. Eventually they weakened and the Renaissance in the west brought them back to being a contender and sending the Islamic people back to the middle east

Answer 5

Yes in the 8th and 9th centuries they swept across North Africa and invaded Europe.
They were only stopped by the French at the Battle of Poitiers.

Answer 6

Yes. The Franks, the Bytantine Empire and the Crusaders thought so.

Answer 7

Yes.
During the rise of Islam and following the death of Prophet Mohammed.

Answer 8

Back when Aladdin was a round

Answer 9

they have the power of petrol , and that's a lot these days :|