HIST-151 Ch9- Islam

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1. The Origin and ! Spread of Islam HIST-151 | Chapter 9
2. Religions and Empires Christianity & Buddhism adapted to declining imperial systems! Islam created an empire
4. Origins Arabia! Tribes and Trading! Polytheistic religion! Influence of Judaism & Christianity
5. Origins Muhammad! Born ~570! Divine Revelation (Quran)! 622—hijra (flight to Medina)! Founding of Islam (submission) and the umma (“band of the faithful”)
6. Expansion Muhammad dies in 632! Succeeded by the “rightly guided caliphs”
7. Continued Expansion Umayyad Dynasty- 661-750! 710- Expansion into Spain! 717- Attempted conquest of Constantinople! 732- Battle of Tours
8. Succession Controversy Shīʻatu ʻAlī (Followers of Ali)! Assert that Ali should have been Muhammad’s successor! Split would persist throughout Islam’s history
9. The Abbasid Caliphate 750-1258
10. The Abbasids (750-1258) Based in Baghdad! Caliphs incorporated some aspects of Persian/Sassanid palace life