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8. Islam Spreads
Ap World History - Summerville High School
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| lateen | triangular sails attached to the masts of dhows by long booms or yard arms; which extended diagonally high across the fore and aft of the ship. |
| Harun al-Rashid | most famous of the Abbasid caliphs (786–809); renowned for sumptuous and costly living recounted in The Thousand and One Nights. |
| Seljuk Turks | nomadic invaders from central Asia via Persia; staunch Sunnis; ruled from the 11th century in the name of the Abbasids. |
| Crusades | military campaigns launched by western Christians to free Holy Land from Muslims, especially Palestine; captured Jerusalem and established Christian kingdoms (until 1291). later used for other purposes such as commercial wars and ending heresy. |
| Saladin | (1137–1193); Muslim leader in the last decades of the 12th century; reconquered most of the crusader outposts for Islam. |
| Ibn Khaldun | (1332-1406) A Muslim historian; developed concept that dynasties of nomadic conquerors had a cycle of three generations - strong, weak, dissolute. |
| Shah-Nama | epic poem written by Firdawsi in the late 10th and early 11th centuries; recounts the history of Persia from creation to the Islamic conquests. |
| ulama | Orthodox religious scholars within Islam; pressed for a more conservative and restrictive theology; opposed to non-Islamic thinking. |
| al-Ghazali | brilliant Islamic theologian; struggled to fuse Greek and Qur’anic traditions; not entirely accepted by ulama. |
| Mongols | central Asian nomadic peoples; smashed Turko-Persian kingdoms; captured Baghdad in 1258 and killed the last Abbasid caliph. |
| Chinggis Khan | (1162–1227); born 1170's following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of Mongol tribes in 1206; conquered northern kingdoms of China to Abbasid regions; died 1227 before the conquest of most of the Islamic world. |
| Hulegu | 1217-1265 Ruler of the Ilkhan khanate; grandson of Chinggis Khan; responsible for capture and destruction of Baghdad in 1257. |
| Mamluks | Muslim slave warriors; established a dynasty in Egypt; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and halted Mongol advance. |
| bhaktic cults | Hindu groups dedicated to gods and goddesses; stressed the importance of strong emotional bonds between devotees and the gods or goddesses who was the object of their veneration; most widely worshiped gods were Shiva and Vishnu. |
| Mir Bai | (1498-1547) Celebrated Hindu writer of religious poetry; reflected openness of bhaktic cults to women; low-caste woman poet and songwriter in bhaktic cults. |
| Kabir | (1440-1518) 15th-century Muslim mystic; played down the importance of ritual differences between Hinduism and Islam. |
| Shrivijaya | trading empire centered on Malacca straits between Malaya and Sumatra; controlled trade of empire; Buddhist government resistant to Muslim missionaries; fall opened up southeastern Asia to Muslim conversion. |
| Malacca | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the tip of the Malayan peninsula; traditionally a center for trade among the southeastern Asian islands. |
| Demak | most powerful of the trading states on the north Java coast; converted to Islam and served as a dissemination point to other regions. |
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