HIST 296 Lecture 23: HIST 296 W12L1
Document Summary
Franks and other barbarians : crusades, mongol invasions, and the post-caliphal aftermath. Non-muslim rule and the rise of regional empires, 1150-1500. Internal challenges to normative urban muslim social, cultural, economic pattern-political fragmentation and turkic/berber dynasties; fatimid, isma"ili/zaydi shi"i and ibadi khariji sectarian polities; dissident religious traditions. External threats: ibn al-athir (1160-1233 ce) on 2 barbarian invaders: franks and mongols (614-617 h/1212/18-1221 ce) Increased consciousness of wider world and concerns about where to fit one societies in it. One drivers is mongol conquest that integrate under empire many of these areas, from hungary to china. Franks/ifranj: expansion and ethnic cleansing in latin christendom: a. Before the crusades: norman conquest of sicily (late 1050"s- 1072; mercenaries for byzantines; kings of castiel and leon in. Iberia: 1214 las navas de tolosa and end of 13th all but kingdom of granada, 1492: forced conversion (of jews and muslims); Moriscos to 1609-14 expulsion: minority of muslims of eastern iberian pensisusla, under non-muslim rule.
