Islamic Empires City-State Competition

Directions: Use what you have learned about islam thus far to create a SPRITE chart on Islam and the Islamic
kingdoms of the Post-Classical period. You do not need to rewrite all of the details of the Islamic religion into the
Religion column of the SPRITE.

The Muslim World of the EARLY Post-Classical Period:

Umayyad and Abbasid Empires

Empire Specific

Islam

Umayyad composed of the most prominent of

the Meccan merchant clans.

bedouin merchants, Arab women had more rights

than any other women in civilization, patriarchal
society Sunni Islam and Shia sect.

umma
Persian administrative techniques were used by
Umayyad and Abbasid
Centralized government in Abbasid

Sunni Islam and Shia sect

Caliph
Sufis was the Islamic law

Sunni and Shia

Sunni and Shia . Jihad. Sufis. Five Pillars of Islam

Allah, Mohammed the prophet

House of Wisdom (Abbasid caliph)

Muslims traded over silk roads. The five pillars of

Islam. Quran and the Hadith holy books of Islam as
Quran being the main book.

textiles

Muslim al khwarizmi had a teaching

the Umayyad and Abbasid empires created a

zone of trade from India to Iberia
Indigo and cotton led to becoming textile
production in dar-Islam.
Traded over silk roads.
Banks made business and commerce thrived in
dark al- Islam
Wealth and position in power were given to
people in Arab military

Bedouin merchants

House of Wisdom - In the early 800s, Caliph al-Mamun opened in Baghdad a combination library, academy, and
translation center called the House of Wisdom. There, scholars of different cultures and beliefs worked side by side
translating texts from Greece, India, Persia, and elsewhere into Arabic.