Islamic Empires
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 caliph | succesor to the messenger of God or Muhammad, when Muhammad died they came up with the caliph |
| Umayyad | caliphs who ruled from AD 661 to AD 750,they made their captal the city of Damascus in Syria |
| Sufi | a gruop who spent their time praying and preaching Islam. They won many followers throughout the Arab Empire, while other Muslims are fighting to gain followers |
| Damascus | the Umayyad caliphs made it their capitol city, in Syria |
| Indonesia | includes more Muslims than any where in the world today, in Southeast Asia |
| Timbuktu | in 1300s it became a leading center of Muslim learning , a city in West Africa |
| Shiites | believed that Ali, Mihammads son in law should suceed him and that all future caliphs should be Alis decendent. According to the Shiites the Umayyad caliphs had no right to rule |
| Sunnis | they out numbered the Shiites, they accepted the Umayyad dynasty as ritful caliphs, though they did not always agree with their policies |
| sultan | the Seljuk ruler called himself sultan or holder of power |
| Abbasids | were the dynasty that came after the Umayyads, lasted from AD 700 to AD1200s , deovoted their enrgies to trade, scolarships and the arts, built a new capital,Baghdad |
| Suleiman I | Ottomans called their leader sultan, the most famous sultan was Sulieman I who ruled in the 1500s, enthusiastic about architecturenand schoooling, brilliant general |
| Moguls | during the 1500s the Monguls crested another Muslim empire in India, used guns, canons, elephents and horeses to conquer territorty Made Delhi the capital |
| Akbar | the greatest Mongul ruler, brought peace and order to the part of India that he ruled treated all subjects fairly by allowing them to practice their own religion |
| Baghdad | the capital city of the Abbasids , Baghdad prospered because it was beside the Tigris River and nera the Euphrates River, had a good location for trade |
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