HIST 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Muslim Social, Cheyenne Military Societies, Moodle
Document Summary
Culture, society and economy in the islamicate city: unit and diversity. Period after conversion, muslims are a majority for first time, consequences to extistence of muslim majority societies. Consequences of shift and post-classical phase of muslim societies. After formative period, end up having stable structures and patterns that will endure. Also collapse of muslim unity and broad scale muslim empires, fragmentation. something has happened that has allowed them to survive and persist, now no longer one muslim ruler, but to flourish and expand territorially, beyond early stable and period of. Muslim rulers but initial development of islamic culture/intellectual/religious traditions. Formative, classical period of islamic thought and tradition: universalist 9world chronicles v. epic letature of shanameh) Conversion and beginning of majority muslim societies. No political centre or central political narrative: baghdad no longer capital of unified muslim empire. Territorial expansion and social consolidation of muslim polities: urban society and culture.
