were islams and christians both presecuteed by romans?

Question

in about the 800's

Answer 1

Hello,

If you mean the Western Roman Empire, no. It fell about 100 years before the Birth of Mohamed. The Byzantine Empire was around after that and clashed with Islamic expansion but over the next several hundred years lost little by little and did not fare well against the Muslim armies and ultimately Constantinople fell in 1453, got renamed Istanbul in 1930.

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Michael Kelly

Answer 2

First in this time frame Chrisitnty was the religion of the Roman Empire, which still existed in the East...with it's capitol in Constantinople -The term Byzatine empire origianted long after the empire fell, it was called they called them selves the Roman empire becuse Constantine simply moved the capital..and latter eastern roman empire or Greek Empire as the Roman empire got devided between east and west.
next Islam started out side of the Roman empire
so Islam was not persicuted. then the Musloms then invaded the Roman Empire and persicuted Christians, taxation enslavement and intemedation to force convertion to Islam.

Answer 3

Only Christians and Jews were persecuted by Romans.

When Islam came, during the life time of Prophet SAW, Muslims started fighting with Romans to liberate the lands occupied by Romans in Asia east of Meditterrarian ocean. . Later during the Khilafahs of four rightly guided Ameerul Momineen like Abdu Bak, Omar bin Khattab and Othman bin Affan and Ali bin Abu Talib most of the lands on Asian side were liberated. The Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunicia, Morroco were also occupied by Muslims. On Eastern part Irarian Empire was defeated by Muslims and majority of Sun worshipper Zorarcists were defeated and masses accepted Islam.

The beauty of these conquests were that all Christians were so impressed by the fair and just treatment of Muslims that most of them converted as Muslims.Like most conquerers Muslims did not commit atrocities against the non-Muslims. No one was ever forced to convert.

Christians always lie against Muslims. Don't believe if they say any thing otherwise. We Muslims do accept where our forefathers have made mistakes.

Answer 4

Christians probably were, but Islam appeared much later in history, a couple hundred years or more after the Roman Empire fell.

Answer 5

Rome fell in the 400s, and Christianity was the state religion by then. Islam came after the Roman Empire.

Answer 6

The Foreign Cults
The survival of a religious faith depends on a continual renewal and affirmation of its beliefs, and sometimes on adapting its rituals to changes in social conditions and attitudes. To the Romans, the observance of religious rites was a public duty rather than a private impulse. their beliefs were founded on a variety of unconnected and often inconsistent mythological traditions, many of them derived from the Greek rather than Italian models.
Since Roman religion was not founded on some core belief which ruled out other religions, foreign religions found it relatively easy to establish themselves in the imperial capital itself. The first such foreign cult to make its way to Rome was the goddess Cybele around 204 BC.
From Egypt the worship of Isis and Osiris came to Rome at the beginning of the first century BC Cults such as those of Cybele or Isis and Bacchus were known as the 'mysteries', having secret rituals which were only known to those initiated into the faith.
During the reign of Julius Caesar Jews were granted freedom of worship in the city of Rome, in recognition of the Jewish forces which had helped him at Alexandria.
Also very well known is the cult of the Persian sun god Mythras which reached Rome during the first century AD and found great following among the army.
Traditional Roman religion was further undermined by the growing influence of Greek philosophy, particularly Stoicism, which suggested the idea of there being a single god.

Muslums were not invented yet. That religion came hundreds of years later.

Answer 7

Rome wasn't really around anymore in the 800's, and Christianity was the religion of Europe and the Byzantine Empire(which was the only thing that could be considered Rome at the time).

Answer 8

You mean Muslims? Well, by the time the Islamic Empire began rising, there really wasn't much of a Roman Empire left. The Byzantine Empire had taken over by the time the Muslims came, so there really wasn't a Roman empire left.

Answer 9

As far as I can tell, everybody who WASN'T a Roman was persecuted by the Romans during their reign. However, Islam did not exist until about 600 C.E.

Answer 10

The Roman empire had ceased to be, at that time, so no.