HIST 3840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arab Culture, Manumission, Abbasid Caliphate
12 Jan 2017
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Muhammed allegedly appointed as his successor, a descendant of his family: this was a political struggle essentially. Sunni: minority of people within the middle east, their leaders became known as imams, majority of people, ottomans were sunni. Ottoman: comes from the term "osman, attempting to expand the lands of islam at the expense of other outside powers, the meaning of jihad evolves overtime, improving one"s self before the eyes of god (ex. Context: this was a frontier society that wasn"t just born out of nowhere there were a huge amount of actors that influenced its creation and its numerous transformations, after the first four caliphs, the ummanine(?) Dynasty was founded where a governor from damascus established a hereditary dynasty following winning a power struggle: abbasid caliphate (750 945/1258) Extremely rich academic period where arts and sciences flourished. Political fragmentation takes place as the empire gets massive: fragmentation of islamic civilization after 750.
