HIS102Y1 Lecture : The Worlds of Christainity and Islam.docx
Document Summary
As the latin west and greek east were going into divergent paths, islam was emerging and spreading in africa, europe, and asia through muslim conquest. Islamic expansion did not impose a uniform culture over a vast empire but claimed to a universal culture. Christainity and islam offered a vision of common brotherhood, bringing religious sensibility to daily life and integrated disparate peoples into a community of faith. The combining of spiritial faith and with political+miliatry faith was crucial to islamic expansion. Despite later fragmentation of states, the mixture of economy and religion of the islamic world allowed muslim merchants to unite the countries of asia, europe, and africa. Isalmic cities became global crossroads for the exchange of goods and ideas. Multiple christianities: the progress of conversion throughout the territories of the old roman. Empire came at the cost of the divisions within the church itself.