Chapter 7

Expansion of Early Islamic Empire

Table of Caliphs

The Crusades

Mongol Empire

CHAPTER OUTLINE

I. The Rise of Islam

A. The Role of Muhammad

B. The Teachings of Muhammad

II. The Arab Empire and Its Successors

A. Creation of an Empire

B. The Rise of the Umayyads

C. The Abbasids

1. Abbasid Rule

2. Instability and Division

3. The Seljuk Turks

D The Crusades

E The Mongols

F. Andalusia: A Muslim Outpost in Europe

1. A Time of Troubles

2. Moorish Spain: An Era of “Cultural Tolerance”?

III. Islamic Civilization

A. Political Structures

B. The Wealth of Araby: Trade and Cities in the Middle East

C. Islamic Society

D. The Culture of Islam

1. Philosophy and Science

2. Islamic Literature

3. Islamic Art and Architecture

1. Bedouin

2. sheikh

3. majlis

   1. Hegira

4. umma

• 1. Five Pillars of Islam

  2. Ramadan

5. ulama

6. Shari’a

7. Hadith

• 1. caliph

8. imam

9. jihad

• 1. Shi’ites

  2. Sunni

  3. vizier

  4. sultan

  5. Crusades

10. emir

• 1. Sufism

11. mihrab

12. muezzin

Study Help:

1. Who provoked the Byzantine request for the Crusades

2. Name of Battle where Seljuk Turks defeated Byzantines

3. Mongols unable to capture this area

4. Islamic society relies on what to determine proper behavior

5. Equality for Muslims

6. City that replaced Baghdad as greatest Muslim city

7. Primary contribution of Arab scholarship

8. Creation of algebra

9. Sufis

10. Great mosque in Jerusalem