Chapter 14: The Expansive Realm of Islam

Chap. 14 | Chp. 18 | Chp. 19 | Chp. 20 | Chp. 21 | Chp. 22

Homework

• Read Chapter 14
• Answer Big Picture Questions: Chapter 14.
• Complete Study Guide: Chapter 14.

• Artist depiction of Muhammad

  Chapter 14: Practice Quiz

A Prophet and His World

• Muhammad and His Message
  • Muhammad's Spiritual Transformation
  • The Quran
• Muhammad's Migration to Media
  • Conflict at Mecca
  • The Hijra
  • The Umma
  • The Seal of the Prophets
• The Establishment of Islam in Arabia
  • Muhammad's Return to Mecca
  • The Five Pillars of Islam
  • Islamic Law: The Sharia

The Expansion of Islam

• The Early Caliphs
  • The Caliph
  • The Expansion of Islam
  • The Shia
• Umayyad Dynasty
  • Compare Umayyad with the Abbasid (Inspiration Template)
• The Umayyad Dynasty
• Policy toward Conquered Peoples
• Umayyad Decline
• The Abbasid Dynasty
  • Abu al-Abbas
  • The Abbasid Dynasty
  • Abbasid Administration
  • Harun al-Rashid
  • Abbasid Decline

Economy and Society of the Early Islamic World

• New Crops, Agricultural Experimentation, and Urban Growth
  • The Spread of Food and Industrial Crops
  • Effects of New Crops
  • Agricultural Experimentation
  • Urban Growth
• The Formation of a Hemispheric Trading Zone
  • Overland Trade
  • Camels and Caravans
  • Maritime Trade
  • Banks
  • The Organization of Trade
  • Al-Andalus with its capital city Cordoba
• Changing Status of Women
  • The Quran and Women
  • Veiling of Women

Islamic Values and Cultural Exchanges

• The formation of an Islamic Cultural tradition
  • The Quran and Sharia were main sources to formulate moral guidelines
  • Promotion of Islamic Values
  • Sufis, or Islamic mystics
  • The Hajj
• Islam and the Cultural Traditions of Persia, India and Greece

Links

• Best of History Web Sites: Islam - http://www.besthistorysites.net/AncientBiblical_Islam.shtml
• Five Pillars of Islam - http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0003/hajj/pillars/content3.html