Chapter 10:

The Muslim World 

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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

     

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Sunni-shi'a split

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  • Sufi rejected the luxurious life of the Umayyad
  • Abbasids took control of the empire
 

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Rival groups divide muslim lands

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  • The Fatimid caliphate was formed my Shi'a muslims
  • Claimed descent from Fatima, Muhammad's daughter
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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 people"

LOWEST CLASS- slaves

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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

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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.