 | Term | Definition |
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the thousand and one nights |
book title of life at the court of the caliph al-rashid |
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the harem |
innovation of the abbasid court with respect to women |
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puberty (age 9) |
when women were legally married during abbasid era |
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buyids of persia |
regional splinter dynasty that captured baghdad in 945 |
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seljuk turks |
captured baghdad in 1055 |
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Sunni |
the religious affiliation of seljuk turks |
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1099 |
when jerusalem was captured by christian crusaders |
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1291 |
when the fall of acre, the last crusader stronghold fell |
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saladin |
muslim leader responsible for the reconquest of most of the territories belonging to the christian crusaders |
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persian |
primary written language of the later abbasid court |
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Shah-nama |
book where work related to history of perisa from creation to islamic conquests |
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ulama |
orthodox relgious scholars that grew suspicious/hostile to non islamic ideas & sci thinking |
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mongols |
group that captured baghdad in 1258 |
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711 |
when muslims first raided into india |
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muhammad ibn Qasim |
commander of the first islamic incursion into the sind in 711 |
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muhammad of Ghazi |
descendant of a turkish slave dynasty in afghanistan that led a series of expeditions into india to seize booty in 11th century |
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muhammad of Ghur |
ruler who was associated with the transition from raiding to the establishment of an islamic empire in india |
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Dehli |
capital of islamic kingdom est. after 1206 in india |
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buddhist or low caste groups |
the groups in india who were most likely to convert to islam |
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Shrivijaya |
the empire where the spread of islam to SE Asia was delayed untill the fall of buddhist trade |
