ARB 2101 Lecture 1: Lectures 1-10 Full course notes
17 Jan 2019
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Chapter 1: a new power in an old world. The world into which the arabs came: for many centuries, the countries of the mediterranean basin had been part of the roman. > later known as byzantine (less roman, more. Most the population was christian but jewish people were still there. Christianity gave a new dimension to loyalty felt towards the emperor and united cultures: christian ideas were expressed differently in different regions of the empire and were in the literary languages of the region: He was not seen as a messenger of god, but someone who has religious authority: abu bakr and his successors exercised leadership over a wider range than the prophet. Challenge was to unite the alliances that were shaky with the tribal chiefs as some rejected political control of the madina. This was resolved through military action and in the process an army was created.
