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World CivilizationsThe Global Experience
World CivilizationsThe Global Experience
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Abbasid Decline and Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South Civilization to South and Southeast Asiaand Southeast Asia
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The Spread of Islamic Civilization
I. The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras
II. An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements
III. The Coming of Islam to South Asia
IV. The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia
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The Abbasid Empire at Its Peak
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The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras
• Abbasid empire weakened, 9th-13th centuries– Peasant revolts
• Al-Mahdi (775-785)– Shi’a unreconciled– Succession not secure
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The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras
• Imperial Extravagance and Succession Disputes– Harun al-Rashid
Son of al-Mahdi The Thousand and One Nights Barmicides• Persian advisors
Death followed by civil war
– Al-Ma'mun
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Imperial Breakdown andAgrarian Disorder
•Civil unrest•Caliphs build lavishly
–Tax burden increases–Agriculture suffers
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The Declining Position of Women in the Family and Society
• Seclusion, veil• Polygyny
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Nomadic Incursions and the Eclipse of Caliphal Power
• Former provinces threaten Abbasids• Buyids, Persia
–Take Baghdad, 945–Sultans
• Seljuk Turks–1055, defeat Buyids–Sunnis
Shi'a purges
–Defeat Byzantines, Egypt
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The Impact of the Christian Crusades
• 1096, western European Christian knights–Small kingdoms established
• Saladin retakes lands–Last in 1291
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An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements
•Urban growth•Merchants thrive
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The Full Flowering of Persian Literature
• Persian the court language–Administration, literature
• Arabic in religion, law, sciences•Calligraphy• Firdawsi
–Shah-Nama Epic poem
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The Full Flowering of Persian Literature
• Sa'di•Omar Kayyan
–Rubaiyat
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Achievements in the Sciences
•Math–Build on Greek work
•Chemistry–Experiments
• Al-Razi• Al-Biruni
–Specific weights
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The Spread of Islam,10th-16th Centuries
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Achievements in the Sciences
•Medicine–Hospitals–Courses of study
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Religious Trends and the New Push for Expansion
• Sufis–Mysticism
•Ulama–Conservative–Against outside influence–Greek philosophy rejected
Qur'an sufficient
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Religious Trends and the New Push for Expansion
• Al-Ghazali–Synthesis of Greek, Qur'anic ideas–Opposed by orthodoxy
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New Waves of Nomadic Invasions and the End of the Caliphate
•Mongols–Chinggis Khan
•Hulegu• 1258, Baghdad falls
–Last Abbasid killed
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Modern States with a Sizable Muslim Population
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The Coming of Islam to South Asia
• By 1200, Muslims rule much of north, central•Conflict between two different systems
–Hindu religion v. Muslim monotheism–Muslim egalitarianism v. Indian caste system
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Political Divisions and the First Muslim Invasions
• First as traders, 8th century–Attacks lead to invasion
•Muhammad ibn Qasim–Umayyad general–Takes Sind, Indus valleys–Indians treated as dhimmi
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Early Islam in India
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Indian Influences on Islamic Civilization
• Science, math, medicine, music, astronomy– India influences Arab
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From Booty to Empire: The Second Wave of Muslim Invasions
• 10th century, Turkish dynasty established in Afghanistan– Mahmud of Ghazni
Begins invasion of India
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From Booty to Empire: The Second Wave of Muslim Invasions
• Muhammad of Ghur– Persian– State in Indus valley– Thence to Bengal– His lieutenant, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak
forms state at Delhi Delhi sultanate rules for 300 years
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Patterns of Conversion
• Converts especially among Buddhists, lower castes, untouchables– Also, conversion to escape taxes
• Muslims fleeing Mongols, 13th, 14th centuries
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Patterns of Accommodation
• High-caste Hindus remain apart– Muslims also often fail to integrate
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Islamic Challenge andHindu Revival
• Bhakti– Devotional cults– Emotional approach– Caste distinctions dissolved– Shiva, Vishnu, Kali especially
• Mira Bai, Kabir, – Songs in regional languages
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Stand-off: The Muslim Presence in India at the End of the Sultanate Period
• Brahmins v. ulama– Separate communities
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The Spread of Islam toSoutheast Asia
• Shrivijaya
• Trading Contacts and Conversion– Trading leads to peaceful conversion
Sufis important Starting with Sumatran ports
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The Spread of Islam in Southeast Asia
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The Spread of Islam toSoutheast Asia
• Malacca– Thence to Malaya, Sumatra, Demak (Java)
• Coastal cities especially receptive – Buddhist elites, but population converts to
Islam
• Sufi Mystics and the Nature of Southeast Asian Islam