Have islamic beliefs changed over the years?

Question

i need answer for project on world history i need to know if they changed how they changed and why.

Answer 1

What mulsim beliefs?
there are areas that are set and do not change
but there are other areas that do adapt,because they are adaptable
You can find more info about new scientific and modern day to day adaptation in this site
http://www.islamreligion.com

You can also do a smart googling like
islam and (any modern practice or theory like)
islam and organ transplant
islam and abortion
islam and in vitro fertilization
and so on

Answer 2

This subject ought to be looked at with the eyes of a scholar more often. I have found a good source to describe what it is that you are talking about. I found it interesting, I hope you do too:


From Book Title: The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800. Contributors: Jonathan P. Berkey - author. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 2003. Page Number: 58.

For most if not all Muslims, the personalities and events in question provide the symbolic vocabulary of continuing and contemporary debate. For the historian, however, the problem lies in the reliability of the sources available for a reconstruction of those events. The ninth-century belle-lettrist Ibn Qutayba quoted the Prophet's companion Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman as blithely acknowledging that: “We are Arab people; when we report, we predate and postdate, we add and we subtract at will, but we do not mean to lie.” 2 The difficulties however go considerably beyond this charming acknowledgment of unintentional tendentiousness. The oldest surviving Arabic sources for the earliest years of Islam, although based on earlier orally-transmitted material, date from a period more than a century after the events they describe. And so as one recent study has succinctly put it, it is difficult to know what “Islam” was a century or so after the start of the Muslim era, since “none of the Islamic texts available to us yet existed.” 3 By the time those texts were actually written down in the form in which we now have them, the normative traditions were already almost complete, and diverse and competing parties had developed within Muslim society. As a result, these sources inevitably reflect later attitudes and interests as much as, if not more than, those of the earliest Muslims, and project those attitudes and interests back upon the people and events they describe. Source critical problems similar to those involved in the study of the Christian gospels absolutely permeate the earliest Islamic historical record.

This problem has in fact been recognized for some time. Of late, however, the degree to which the traditional Arabic literary sources can be relied upon at all to provide a narrative of events has been a matter of vigorous debate. Several published surveys can now guide the interested reader to a fuller examination of the historical and historiographical questions. 4 But the issue bears directly on
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2 Quoted by Moshe Sharon, “The Umayyads as Ahl al-Bayt, ” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 14 (1991), 115.
3 G. R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 13.
4 A very convenient starting point is R. Stephen Humphreys, Islamic History: A Framework for History, revised edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 69–91. See also Albrecht Noth with Lawrence I. Conrad, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-critical Study, trans. Michael Bonner (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994), and Fred Donner, Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1998).

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Answer 3

The main change in Islam's history was the split between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims because of their disagreements on whether Abu Bakr or Ali ibn Abi Talib were the rightful caliph after Mohammad died.

Answer 4

Islam NEVER changes, Muslims do, as someone above me already said.

Answer 5

never changed

Answer 6

No.
Islam doesn't change,,,muslims do.