Was the Plague Disease a Motivating or an Inhibiting Factor in the Early Muslim Community?
In spite of the fact that the Muslim community in the period of orthodox caliphs and the Umayyad caliphs was raped by recurrent episodes of plague, this phenomenon was not studied on a large scale and through its comprehensive prospective. Plague in the early Islamic era was a part of pandemic invaded the Mediterranean region for more than two centuries, but it owned special local characteristics derived from the interaction of the virulence of the disease and the teachings of Islam. Besides the deaths of important Muslim men by plague, it is suggested that the endemic nature of plague during the early Islamic Empire may have significantly retarded population growth and debilitated Muslim society in Syria and Iraq during the Umayyad Period. Thus, it played an important role in the history of the Islamic Empire. In addition, these epidemics provoked medical and religious explanations and prescriptions, which strongly influenced the attitudes and behavior of the Muslim community toward the disease. In our treatise, we tried to conduct a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, trying to pay attention to its diverse sides, and its significant consequences on the Islamic community.