Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fatimid Caliphate, Sevener, Mawla

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Gyongi Hegedus

Document Summary

Islamic political theory: sunni and shiite islam are getting further from each other as time passes. The soldiers were treated as a higher rank than the regular population. 750- 1258 ce: the abbasids: this was the golden age of islam. The golden period of islam that we should recreate is the abbasid" period. During this time, the islamic empire was the number 1 empire in the world. This was symbolic because during the ummayad period, the arabs were considered superior. The mawlas became more important than the arabs in this period. There was a hadeeth that started to circulate that said that there was no difference between the arabs and persians. Meaning that new and old converts to islam were all equal. The persian empire existed way before the age of prophet muhammed: They were always powerful and therefore, took the high administrative positions in the.