Chapter 10:
The Muslim World
600-1250
Sungjen, Worawat, Nilar
Section 1: The Rise of Islam
Deserts, Towns, and Trade routes


Mecca
- Ancient shrine named Ka'aba
- Belief in Allah, one true God

The Prophet Muhammad
- Born into a powerful
Mecccan family - Married businesswoman named Khadijah
- Took interest in religion and often meditated

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Islam - Submission to the will of Allah
Muslim- one who has submitted

Hijrah moving to Yathrib, 200 miles away
later renamed Medina
Beliefs and practices of Islam

sOURCES OF AUTHORITY
- Revelations by Gabriel collected in the Qur'an
- Written in Arabic
- Sunna Muhammad's example
- Shari'a body of law under guidance of the Qur'an


Links to Judaism and Christianity
Section 2
Islam Expands
Despite problems, Muslims created a huge empire

Muhammad's successors
- Spread Islam
- Four rightly guided Caliphs

internal conflict creates a crisis
- Rise of the Umayyad family
- Surrounded themselves with wealth
- Brought division in Muslim community

Sunni-shi'a split
- Sufi rejected the luxurious life of the Umayyad
- Abbasids took control of the empire
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Rival groups divide muslim lands
- The Fatimid caliphate was formed my Shi'a muslims
- Claimed descent from Fatima, Muhammad's daughter


Section 3
Muslim culture
Muslims combined and preserved the traditions of many peoples and also advanced learning in a variety of areas
Muslim society

Baghdad impressed all who saw it
Four social classes
UPPER CLASS- Muslims at birth
SECOND CLASS- Converts to Islam
THIRD CLASS- "protected

ROLE OF WOMEN
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Extension of Knowledge

arts and sciences flourish
- Bullet One
- Bullet Two
- Bullet Three



ADVANCES IN MEDICINE, MATHS, A ND SCIENCE



Al-Khwarizmi
Ibn al-Haytham
Muslim culture continued. knowledge developed by the Muslim scholars is still used today.

CITATIONs
Beck, R. (2003). "World History Patterns of Interaction". Evanston Ill. :McDougall Littell.
Multiple pictures from Google Images.
Islam (n.d.) Retrieved September 3.
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