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Ch.9 Worlds of Islam

600-1500 CE

  • Most of the culture traditions from this time come from Confusianism and Daoism
  • Values bravery, group loyalty, and hospitality 
  • Mecca- became welathy by taxing local trade. Home to tribes/clans, outlaws, and exiles
  • Muhammad Abdulla 570-632 CE
  • Lost his parents when he was young- became a shephard for money. He married a widow and had 6 children.
  • Quarns message through Muhammed
  • Quarn demanded social justice
  • Core message was the remembence of God
  • Muhammed changed the society
  • As islamic faith spreads, arabian empire is weakened by war and internal revolts
  • 644 sassnid defeats the Arabs
  • Muslims conquer spain in 700
  • Caliph- successor to muhammed
  • 3/4th were assasinated
  • Shia- party/branch of islam
  • Shia saw themselves as a minority, sunnis established order. Shias revolt and that caused division in the islamic worlds. 
  • Arabian empires, caliphs became arab chiefs

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