Specific types of people in this unit
Early Muslim followers, sometimes called mystics, very religious movement that helped spread Islam through adopting spiritual purity, incorporates Muslim fundamentals (similar to Monks and Nuns in monasteries, or traveling missionaries), fully devoted to the fundamentals of their faith.
Who are Sufis?
House of learning, Abbasids.
What is Baghdad?
Circa the 10th century CE, how books were produced.
What is by human copying by hand with ink on paper that was expensive?
A inn that provided lodging for travelers, merchants, and caravans. They were present throughout much of the Islamic world. They supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of trade routes covering Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe, most notably the Silk Road.
What are caravanserais?
To subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or their political belief.
What is persecute or persecution?
A person who travels to spread their faith and complete good deeds usually as a part of these journeys.
Who is a missionary?
2 names of states that indicate they are led by Muslim leaders.
What are a caliphate and a sultanate?
The Eastern half of the Roman Empire that would exist until the early 15th century. Southeastern Europe, Anatolia, the Middle East (Levant), parts of north Africa; Christian, however their empire was diverse (not all Christian, with Islam growing rapidly at the end of it, and significant Jewish minorities).
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Cities like Fez, Baghdad, Timbuktu, Cairo, Delhi and Alexandria were centers of trade and scholarship, with people from very far away coming to teach and learn, as well as having the best infrastructure at the time. These cities could be described as this.
What is cosmopolitan?
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was an Islamic scholar who worked in astronomy, law, logic, ethics, mathematics, philosophy and medicine. This made him one of these.
What is a polymath?
Eastern Roman Empire. Capital Constantinople. Christian leaders but diverse covering (at its height) Southeastern Europe, Anatolia, parts of North Africa and the Levant.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The scholars of Dar al Islam preserved and translated (as well as further expanded upon) the works of these ancient civilizations and scholars.
What are Greek and Roman?
During the post-classical period when Dar al Islam grew and flourished, this nearby region which had been under the control of the Roman Empire, could be best described as this politically, as it was divided up into hundreds of different kingdoms, duchies and city-states.
What is fragmented?
A place where monks or nuns (male and female monastics) live in a community, dedicated to a life of religious devotion, communal living, work, and spiritual development, often under vows and a specific rule of life. They developed in many religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and have historically served as centers for prayer, education, art, and community support, preserving texts, promoting spiritual ideals, and providing social services like hospitals and hostels.
What are monasteries?
Book publishing capital, center of learning, al-Andalus, Iberian, ruled by the Umayyads.
What is Cordoba?
They, like other pastoral people thrived along the Maghreb and conquered in Al Andulus as well as across the Sahara as they embraced Islam. Their toughness made this ethnic group "built different(ly)". They and other pastoral conquerors like the Turks and the Mongols conquered and eventually became settled in empires of their own.
Who were the Berbers?
She was a Sufi poet and one of the most well-read poets from this time period in Dar al Islam. Her works were likely the most well-read woman writing in Arabic before the 20th century.
Who was 'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya?
During the time period circa 1200, the Mamluks (warrior slaves) that were Turks were elite warrior slaves. These were the two weapons that they were masters of using on horseback.
What are bow and arrows and swords?
A person who has been sent to a foreign country to teach their religion to the people who live there.
What is a missionary?
Ship with a larger hull for cargo adapted from India and China demonstrated maritime transportation technology adapted by Dar al Islam.
What are dhows?
A scholar who studied multiple areas for example philosophy, astronomy and trigonometry.
What is a polymath?
A Maghrebi Muslim traveler, explorer and scholar.[7] Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, commonly known as The Rihla. He traveled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history,
Who was Ibn Battuta?
What is the Levant?
Of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen. The traditional Mongols, Turks and Berbers cultures fit this description as they were also semi-nomadic as they travelled with their animals.
What is pastoral?
northeastern corner of Africa that borders the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula
What is the horn of Africa?
Muslims were not permitted to enslave other Muslims, so Arabs recruited these peoples to be their soldiers. They were called Mamluks (had great status, and eventually also became Muslim and ran the military and bureaucracy).
Who were Turkic peoples (aka Turks)?
3 Ms of how Islam spread rapidly after the death of Muhammed.
What are missionaries (Sufism), merchants, and military conquests?
Slavery, at this time did not include these qualities.
What are it is not permanent, it is not hereditary, and it is not racially based?
When land is divided into many different duchies, kingdoms or city-states.
What is politically fragmented?
an illegal (and usually violent) overthrow of a government and its leaders (often by military leaders)
What is a coup d'état?
What are sugar and cotton?
Islam does not allow slavery of any of these people.
Who are Muslims, or other monotheists such as Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians?
9 mile waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Straight of Gibraltar?
In Dar al Islam, the law code is derived from this.
What is Sharia?
Popular acceptance of a government, political regime, or system of governance.
What is legitimacy?