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How did Islam alter the history of the world?
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Rise of Islam
7th century: Muhammad received revelations in Arabic –gathered together into a book Quran (Koran)- became the basis of a new religion that we know as Islam
The Muslim community quickly expanded, uniting many tribes of Arabia
These tribes, united by the faith of Islam, swept out of Arabia to conquer the Persian and Byzantine empires
Islam
The advance of Islam
Within a century, the new empire stretched from southern Spain to northern India, and from the Caucasus to the Indian Ocean.
The empire was ruled by Khalifa (caliphs). The first four were known by the Rightly Guided Khalifas. They were: Abu Bakr Omar Uthman, and Ali
Then the Umayya Dynasty Then the Abbasi Dynasty
Islamic civilization
A synthesis of the religion and culture of Arabia with the great imperial traditions of the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian empire.
This synthesis molded the politics, science, literature, and arts of the people who adopted Islam
As a dominant culture of the region, it had a shaping influence on the Armenians and the Jews
The history of Islam
Islamic faith was linked to the expansion of Islamic rule
Muslim rulers were tolerant of those religions who faith was based on revelation, such as Judaism and Christianity, but forbade them to increase their numbers by conversion
The history of Islam is turbulent and violent: Umayya were overthrown Abassi founded Baghdad, Islam’s imperial city
Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad
History of Islam
Religious factionalism threatened the caliphate
The Muslim community divided between those who believed that the caliphate should remain in the prophet’s bloodlines (Shi'i) and those who insisted only that it remain within his clan, the Quraish (Sunni)
History of Islam
1210-1220- the Islamic empire was shattered The Mongol Chinghis Khan’s armies, which had
already subjugated all of China, swept through Central Asia, and Iraq, leveling cities.
1260- Mamluk rulers of Egypt defeated the Mongols in Palestine and ended the myth of their invincibility
Baghdad lost its eminence as the chief city of Islam
History of Islam
The Mongol dynasties that succeeded to rule in the Islamic world converted to Islam, and accommodated themselves to Islamic norms of rule
1336-1405-Tamerlane, who claimed descent from the khans, led his armies from Samarkand into Iran, Turkey and Russia
The Timurids were the last powerful dynasty to originate in the steppes
Islam in the 15th century
Detail of intricate tile work on mosque dome, Yazd, Iran.
History of Islam
The world of Islam came to be divided between the Ottomans in the west, the Safawi in Iran, and the Moghuls in India
The Ottomans launched the last great conquest, begun in the 14th c., when they expanded across the Bosphorus into the Balkans, threatening Vienna in 1683
Islamic literature
Islam established Arabic as the dominant language of religion, trade, and learning throughout the empire
9th century: Center of translation in Baghdad Greek science and philosophy, Indian mathematics,
Chinese medicine, and Persian literature were all translated into Arabic
Arabic had become the lingua franca of all the communities of Islam
Islam had become a cosmopolitan, international culture
Prose vs. poetry
Prose, which had next to no role in pre-Islamic literature of Arabia, came to enjoy exceptional currency because it was a better vehicle than poetry both for religious learning and for the new secular, humanistic learning that was flooding Islam from all sides
Though poetry enjoyed precedence over prose in the classical period, as it continued to do until the present day, prose was the accepted vehicle for narrative
What are the characteristics of Islamic literature? Quranic intolerance of fiction, which it categorized as
‘lying’ Prose narratives were strongly didactic or informative
–moralistic beast fables The Thousand and One Nights –popular
entertainment –not welcomed into the canon Imaginative literature was excluded from religion 10th c. with the rise of mysticism poetry became a
vehicle for spirituality in Islam
The languages of Islam
Islamic literature began in Arabic 9th century: Islamic poetry and prose began to be
written in Persian as well Persian poets drew on the pre-Islamic Iranian stories
from its national epic tradition to create an extremely rich literature – sufi mysticism
The origins of Islamic literature in Turkish can be traced to the 11th c.
14th c Islamic poetry in the regional languages of India – Kashmiri, Punjabi etc.
Islam
The Islamic cultural tradition made no effort to accept the pre-Islamic cultural traditions as its own (Greece, Mesopotamia, Palestine)
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