POLS 3060 Chapter Chapter 1: The Making of the Modern Middle East
23 Jul 2018
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The abbasid, umayyad, and later the ottoman, safavid, and qujar empires extended across a vast territory, stretching from north africa to the gulf; they would also help to establish a memory of. Greatness, a time of islamic empires that rivaled the west: by the eighteenth century, the two major political entities in the middle east, the ottoman empire and. Islam emerged in the seventh century in the arabian peninsula in what is today saudi arabia. Qur"an is arranged according to how muslims believe muhammad organized it in his lifetime, it is not chronological. European ideas of state and governance and has almost no relevance to earlier periods. Uthman ibn affan, and ali ibn abi talib as the period of the so-called rightly guided caliphs or. In 635 ce, damascus fell to muslim armies, jerusalem in 638 ce, and then in 641 ce egypt was captured.
