NMC277H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fatimid Caliphate, Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, Advanced Land Observation Satellite
10 Aug 2016
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Europe"s first encounter with islam because of: expansionist policies. Muslims went all the way to spain next two hundred years power in the hands of the muslims. 750 onwards, the abbasid empire based in baghdad, flourished. Abbasids perso islamic culture and had the military support of the. 10th and 11th centuries fragmentation of the abbasids and the. Europeans reappeared in the eastern mediterranean and spain. During the first centuries of muslim rule, christian pilgrims from. Europe had usually been able to visit the sacred places associated with their faith in jerusalem and the holy land. The fatimids promoted an ideology which was loathing to sunni muslims and threatened at one point to overthrow the abbasids. The seljuk turks recent converts to islam supported the abbasids and. The seljuks were still reliant on their nomadic kinsmen for military support. The political situation in nearby anatoliaa was alos destablised at this time with the byzantine losing to the seljuks.
