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Mid-term Study Guide
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History of the Islamic World Midterm Study Guide Fall 2004 I have looked this over and made on minor deletion. Otherwise it remains the same. Terms to know: Muhammad Mecca Medina/Yathrib Hijaz Pre-Islamic Arabian religion Sassanian Empire Byzantine Empire Monophysite Christianity Chalcedonian Christianity Nestorian Christianity Zoroastrianism Arabian incense trade Quran Hijra Five pillars of Islam Jihad Hadith/Sunna Shariah Fiqh Qadi Quraysh Sufism/Sufi Tariqa Caliph Abu Bakr Umar Uthaman Ali Husayn Mu’awiyah Shi’i Sunni dhimmi Battle of Talas Battle of Tours Fitna Wars Ummayyad Abbassid High Caliphate Umar II Abd al Malik Abu Muslim Harun al Rashid Barmakids Turkish slave soldiers Seljuk Turks First Crusade Fourth Crusade Mongols Il-Khans Hulegu Khan Mahmoud of Ghanzni Slave Sultanate of Delhi Islam as a merchant’s religion Spread of Islam to West Africa Spread of Islam to East Africa Role of Sufism in spread of Islam in Africa/Asia
Broader topic: Expansion of Islam of over time – how does Islam spread? By the sword? What does jihad mean? How did Muslim armies and governments treat the dhimmi? Does the treatment of the dhimmi change over time and space? What is the relationship between Arabs and Islam? How does this change over time? What is the Quran? How do Muslims understand it and how has this understanding of the Quran shaped the Islamic world? Were the events of the 1000-1300 period (crusaders, Turks and Mongols) a disaster for the Islamic world? How did they reshape the Islamic world?
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