FSN 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Harald Bluetooth, Antependium, Quadrivium
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Visigoths sacked rome in 410; hastened the collapse of the roman imperial hierarchy as well as rome"s territorial control. Moors conquered spain in the early 8th century, which had also been a part of the. Means surrender to god, founded by prophet muhammad; died in 632, and his successor united arabia, but succession complications created a schism that persists today; sunni muslims and shiite. Holy book is the koran (hadith was the later text, a compilation of traditions), the. 5 pillars: no god but allah with messenger muhammad, ritual prayer towards. Mecca 5x a day. almsgiving, fasting/abstinence during ramadan, the hadj (annual pilgrimage to the. Islam discourages the making of images that might be worshipped as idols; they thus exceed at calligraphy and geometric patterns. Earliest extant islamic sanctuary, with an exterior facing of marble and mosaics; the style synthesizes byzantine, persian other m. e.