10. How has this caused problems in the history of Islam?

The Tribe has always been an important concept in Arabian and Islamic history, creating divisions among its dwellers and followers. This has caused problems in the history of Islam because the beliefs that Islam teaches goes almost directly against those of tribes. Originally people who had lived in tribes lived abiding the socail casts inwhich merchants, warriors and teachers made up the hihgher and middle classes while servants and peseants made up the lower, then of course there were the untouchables. Islam on the other hand was quite different. one of the man characteristics of Islam is ethics. Islam believed in, as individuals, each should be ethical towards both the unity of God AND their community. This meant that each person did have its own role in community, but each had their equal amounts of work they needed to put into their community. In this way it is different from the expectations of  "normal" tribe lower tribe had more work that was expected of them. Islam is also egalitarian which means they believed each human spirit was equal to every other human spirit, in the eyes of God. This also is a difference or new idea that Islam in brought to tribes. Another difference was the the rules and expectations of Islam were the same for each person, whereas in caste each person had their own. These differences caused the tribes and islamic followers to conflict with each other because their beliefs of people's rights and places in society, or rather in life, were very different.