HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Abbasid Caliphate, Merovingian Dynasty
7 Oct 2020
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Under umayyad rule, yuhanna mansur a damascene christian, flourished as a theologian and philosopher. Later called john of damascus, he eventually detached from society in order to become a. Christian ascetic and increasingly an opponent of islam: fall of the umayyads. Around 750 ce, the dynasty began to lose its hold on the entire islamic world. This was due to internal strife, which allowed a new group to seize the caliphate, the abbasid dynasty: umayyad survival. After being supplanted by the abbasids, the umayyads would hold on in al-andalus. The fragmentation of the islamic world would continue, with umayyads out west, abbasids in. Mesopotamia, and other groups emerging elsewhere: umayyad europe. Under the caliphate, large portions of europe were no longer to be synonymous with. In addition to iberian al-andalus, some muslim leaders marched over the pyrenees into. In the first half of the 8th century, frankish gaul was still ruled by the merovingians.
