Arab Umayyad and Abbasid Empires

Related BrainMass Solutions

• Success of Islam and Arabs in the Middle East

  What were the military successes of the Omayyad and Abbasids Arab Empires? Why did Islam and the Arabs succeed in spreading throughout the Greater Middle-East/Gulf against the Byzantines and Persians?

• Abd al-Rahman I of Spain

  The Arab-dominated Umayyad dynasty at Damascus was overthrown in 756 by the Abbasids, who moved the caliphate to Baghdad.

• Adab -training, views, contribution, role in Abbasid period

  During the period of high Abbasid culture in the ninth century the concept was broadened to include non-Arab traditions as well, particularly Iranian epic and narrative, Indian fables and Greek philosophy.

• "Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity" by Patricia Crone

  Chapter Eight covers the clientage system under Umayyad rule. In this period we find the emergence of non-Arab converts, mostly as slaves and prisoners of war.

• Role of Abu Muslim al-Khursani

  This was an Arab family who descended from Abbas, the uncle of Muhammad. As a reward he was made governor of Khorasan (a province in Northeastern Iran), and was very popular despite the fact that he was born a mawali or a non-Arab Muslim.

• "A History of Medieval Islam", by J.J. Saunders (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), xv, 219. Review by Dr. Paul-Thomas Ferguson.

  Other chapters deal with the spread of the Islamic empire through the Arab world and beyond, the rise and fall of the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid dynasties, including a good discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses of individual rulers within

• Spread of Islam: Mecca, Medina and Battle of Poitiers

  The separate tribes had been re-formed into a Muslim-Arab Umma (community).

• The Middle East: A History", by Sydney Nettleton Fisher

  Part I surveys the rise and spread of Islam in the Middle East from the emergence of Muhammad, through the "Rightly-Guided", Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates, to the rise of the Ottomans.

• The revival of Sunni orthodoxy during the 12th century

  The mountain villagers, high-plateau pastoralists, and desert nomads, fiercely devoted to their independence, either avoided the new Arab conquerors or fought them, stirred into action by Khariji refugees from the Arab heartlands.