Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Abbasid Empire
- Islam spread to India
- Muslims invaded
- Muhammad ibn
Qasim conquers
Sind in 711
- Mahmud of Ghazni
invades in early 1000s
- Muhammad of
Ghur conquers
N India in late 1100s
- Qutb-ud-din
Aibak founds
state centered at
Delhi in early 1200s
- Conquest was not as successful in gaining
converts as peaceful contacts were
- Muslim communities
- assimilated
- adopted Indian customs
- Muslims and Hindus
socially separate
- Few converts
- Islam incompatible with Hinduism
- low-caste and outcastes
- equality appealed to them
- Buddhists
- Sufis were similar to gurus
- Muslims gained Indian knowledge
- "Arabic" numberals
- Islam spread to Southeast Asia
- Shrivijaya fell
- Buddhist trading kingdom
- opportunity for Islam to spread
- First in port cities
- Muslim cities and
merchants had more
benefits
- Spread by trade
- Spread by Sufis
- Syncretism
- Kept local gods
- Women better status
- More mystical
- The status of women declined
- Harem
- Veil
- No opportunities,
rights, or freedom
- Why?
- Growing importance of merchants
- Influence from other empires
- Invasions took place
- Buyids in 945
- Regional dynasty from Persia
- Seljuk Turks in 1055
- central Asian nomads
- persecuted Shi'a
- toppled Byzantine Empire
- foundation for Ottoman Empire
- Mongols in 1200s
- led by Chinggis Khan
- grandson Hulegu
captured Baghdad in
1258 and ended dynasty
- Crusades
- first in 1096
- Europeans adopted
Islamic achievement
- led to Renaissance
- Saladin
- reconquered Holy Land in late 1100s
- The empire was politically declining
- Bad rulers
- al-Madhi
- Harum al-Rashid
- Became pawns
- No rule of succession
- Palace intrigue
- Personal armies of
royals who want
throne
- Decline of infrastructure
- Luxury
- financial drain
- heavy taxes
- revolts
- Constant Shi'a rebellion
- Loss of territory
- Regional kingdoms
form and challenge
Abbasids
- It was a golden age of learning
- Persian literature
- Shah-Nama by Firdawsi
- Math
- improved on Greeks
- Chemistry
- Medicine
- hospitals
- world's best doctors
- Art
- Rugs and tapestries
- Mosques and temples
- Religion evolving
- Ulama
- orthodox scholars
- suspicious of outside
influence
- Sufis
- mystics
- spread Islam
- al-Ghazali
- tries to fuse
Greek and
Qur'anic
traditions
- Trade
- Indian Ocean
- Luxury goods
travel far
- Basic necessities
go shorter
distances
- Ideas
- Technology diffusion