Student Presentations Of Chapter 7

He became increasingly dissatisfied with a life focused on Material gain

He faced a challenge from Christian crusaders

He sent presents to Charlemagne

He established a taste for luxury and monumental building

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He became heavily dependent on his Persian Advisors

He was immortalized by his association with

He received the gift of a war elephant from Charlemagne

He named one of his sons as his heir

Concubine

Consort

Harem

Eunuch

... is the amount of time Muslims must court prior to marriage

... was setin the time of al-Madhi

... is also known as Ramadan

... relates tales of the courtesans in al-Rashid's reign

... al-Rashid's death prompted the first of several full-scale civil wars between al-Amin and al-Ma-mum

... the sons were poisoned before they could inherit the kngdom by the mothers of other sons vying for position to the throne

... al-Mahdi murdered them and hung their remains from the town's bridge until 3 years later when feeling regret, he took them down for a proper burial

... al-Amin murdered his brother and became the sole ruler of the vast Empire

Most of the victims of violence have been Hindi

More Muslim live in the Deccan plain than in the Western Ghats

Merchant Muslims do NOT outearn their Hindi counterparts

Very high concentrations of Muslims live near the Bay of Bengal

Abu Bakr

Ali

Axum

Abbasid

Mystics within Islam… responsible for expansion of Islam in southeastern Asia

Nomadic Arabs who originally inhabited desert areas of the Middle East and northern Africa and later began to move to other parts of the region

King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

5 Persian Philosophers of Islamic Literature

5 native languages of the Arabian Peninsula

5 religious duties of Muslims

5 religious Islamic shrines in Mecca

Dhimmi

Umla

Umma

Umayyad

Islamic title, used for rulers of the muslim country

A tower attached to a mosque, used for call to prayer

Muslim God

Islamic Law

Mecca

Medina

Damasus

Najaf

How trade led to the spread of Islam

How Islam Spread in 3 distinct stages

How a number of trade routes from East Asia to Eastern Europe, one of the trade commodities was silk

How the Crusades unfolded until the fall of Acre

Imperial Extravagance

Succession Disputes

Nomadic Incursions

Achievements in the Sciences

... instrumental in spreading Islam to many Afro-Asian regions.

... a great Muslim historian; author of The Muqaddimah.

... a brilliant Islamic theologian; attempted to fuse Greek and Quranic traditions.

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Harsha

Sati

Shrivijaya

Malacca

Not at all successful

Somewhat successful

Very successful

Site of the tomb of Alī, the First Imam of Shia's, in Najaf, Iraq.

In Jerusalem is located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Muristan

Believed to stand on the site of an ancient Philistine temple, the site was used by the Byzantines to erect a church in the 5th century, but after the Muslim conquest in the 7th century, it was transformed into a mosque

Palace of Sadaam Hussein

The difficulty of moving armies across the great distances of the empi

The retention of regional identities by the population

The difficulty of compelling local administrators to obey

The collapse of the cities

Degree of relationship to Muhammad

There was no accepted rule of succession.

Primogeniture or succession of the oldest son

Election by the Arabic tribes of Mecca

The Abbasid dynasty came to an end.

Private armies were abolished in an attempt to curtail future violence over the succession.

Candidates for the throne recognized the need to build up personal armies, often of slave soldiers.

The practice of electing Caliphs in Mecca was once again instituted.

Failure of the irrigation systems

Pillaging by mercenary armies

Decline of the cities leading to falling demand for food supplies

Spiraling taxationWhat did the Abbasid creation of the harem imply?

the continued designation of Mecca as a holy place protected by annual truce

the establishment of long-distance trade with the Indian subcontinent

the recognition of the Shi'i celebration of the death of Husayn

the increasing seclusion of women from public life

Jewish support for the Christian Crusaders guaranteed their victory in the holy land.

Crusader strongholds in the holy land were held until the eighteenth century.

The Crusaders were successful only because of the political fragmentation of Islam and the element of surprise

The Crusaders succeeded because of the overwhelming superiority of western military technology.