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World History
Guided Notes Ch. 11 pp 473-486: The Worlds of Islam
The Birth of a New Religion
The Homeland of Islam
a) Lifestyle and geography in the Arabian Peninsula


b) Mecca


c) Arabias locale and thoughts on religion/god

The Messenger and the Message

d) Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (570-632 CE) - beginnings and revelations

e) The Qurans message:


f) Submission and social practices:


g) Challenges to the status quo:


h) Five Pillars of Islam + the sixth pillar:

The Transformation of Arabia

i) From Mecca to Medina and creation of the supertribe

j) Judaism


k) Spread and Consolidation of Islam


l) Islam compared to Christianity AND Islam as a religious and political state


The Making of an Arab Empire
War and Conquest
m) After Muhammads death


n) Motives (economic, political, religious)


o) Limited disruptive impact

Conversion to Islam

p) Social conversion and why change was not as dramatic (with examples)


q) Conversion process

Divisions and Controversies

r) Problems with unification

s) The first four rightly guided caliphs


t) Sunni vs. Shia beliefs and reasons for growing divide


u) Evolving into monarchs


v) Umayyads (661-750)


w) Abbasids (750-1258)


x) Emergence of Sharia


y) Sufism vs. the establishment teachings