U1L2 - Dar-al-Islam Flashcards
What were the three major religions that communicated in 1250 - 1400?
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
How were the early christians treated?
Persecuted minority
What major empire took Christianity?
Roman empire
How were social structures influenced by Christianity in Europe and Africa!
Entire organizations were organized by hierarchy in Popes, Bishops, Cardinals
Why is the dar-al-islam significant
Golden age of Islam, spread everywhere
What was different between Prophet Mohammad and Jesus?
Prophet Mohammad was a merchant so his followers traded a lot of. Jesus taught not to accumulate wealth.
What was the first Islamic empire to note and what years did it span?
Abassid Empire (8th century - 1200)
-After 1200 they cracked down
What are facts about the abassid empire
-ethnically arab
-power during golden age of Islam (lots of innovations)
-came after Umayyad Caliphate
What ethnicity grew after the Abbasid Empire
Turkic people
What are the three turkic empires?
Seljuk, Mamluk Sultanate, Dehli Sultanate
What was the seljuk empire?
-Central Asia
-Pastoral
-Invited by Abassids to help strengthen their military and expand their empire but betray Abassids
-Take political power from Abassids, though Abassids still had a small slit of power
-VERY STRONG MILITARY
What was the mamluk sultanate?
-Egypt
-Ayyubid empire came before mamluks
-King saladan hired Turkic people as slaves to get more labor
-When saladan dies the other sultans sucked, so the mamluks come
What was the dehli sultanate?
-South-asia
-300 years
What empire ruled before the Mamluks in Egypt? Which person?
ayyubid, saladan
What were the continuities in Muslim empires?
-military in charge
-sharia law(law based on quran)
