Creating New Identities (750-900) - The Shift to the East in the Islamic World - Islamic Arts and Literature
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How did the Abbasid caliphs pay their armies?
How did the middle class live in the Middle Ages?
- Dining off ornate plates and bowls, pouring their water from richly decorated pitchers, the upper and middle classes in the Islamic world lived amid material splendor.
- Their clothing was made of richly woven fabrics, and wall-hangings and rugs adorned their homes.
- Luxury followed them even into the graveyard.
What did the caliphs launch in the world of literature?
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What are reasons why scholars in the Islamic world labored over translations and created original scientific works?
- Shoring up the regime with astrological predictions; winning theological debates with the pointed weapons of Aristotle's logical and scientific works;
- Understanding the theories of bridge-building, irrigation
- Land-surveying with Euclid's geometry
What did the patrons of scientific writing include?
Who is Abu Huraira?
How did Caliph al-Ma'mun interpret the Qur'an?
What did Caliph al-Mutawakkil do?
What implication did the ending of the Mihna have?
Who is the ulama? What came to them?
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