History of the Middle East balance of power in the Muslim world as Egypt once again emerged as a major power. Religion always played a prevalent role in Middle Eastern culture, affecting learning, architecture, and the ebb and flow of cultures. When Muhammad introduced Islam, it jump-started Middle Eastern culture, inspiring achievements in architecture, the revival of old advances in science and technology, and the formation of a distinct way of life. Islam primarily consisted of the five pillars of belief, including confession of faith, the five prayers a day, to fast during the holy month of Ramadan, to pay the tax for charity (the
Iram of the Pillars letters "Iobaritae" And in his text that accompanied the maps, he's very clear about that. It was only the late medieval version of "One Thousand and One Nights", in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, that romanticised Ubar and turned it into a city, rather than a region or a people." By 2007, following further research and excavation, a study authored in part by Zarins could be summarised as follows: There are many Hadiths about Iram perhaps the most interesting one is the story of "Abdullah bin Qalabah" who lost his camel and found Iram of the Pillars while searching for