MESAS 200W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jeddah, Red Sea

• School: Emory University
• Department: Middle Eastern & South Asian
• Course: MESAS 200W
• Professor: Dr. Margariti Roxani

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5 - the economy in muslim societies: what are the important cities of the transregional and transoceanic economy described by k. n. Growth of economic production and consumption made possible by 3 parallel developments. Islamization of the conquered people created a partially homogenous system. Arabization of the army and administration helped to break down ethnic and national barriers by recruiting local entrants. Semitization process was completed through the adoption of arabic as the universal language of communication, education, literary expression, gov"t.