Political Communities Reordered (900-1050) - Division and Development in the Islamic world - Cultural Unity, Religious Polarization
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What did the emergence of local strongmen mean to Arab court culture?
What were the court cultures like in the Buyids, the Fatimids and the Umayyads?
- The Buyids created what one modern scholar, Joel L. Kraemer, has called a renaissance of literary culture echoing that of Greek antiquity.
- The Fatimids embroidered on Islamic themes.
- Equally impressive was the Umayyad court at Cordoba, the wealthiest and showiest city of the West. It boasted seventy public libraries in addition to the caliph's private library of perhaps 400000 books.
What was the Cordoban Great Mosque like?
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Why was Cordoba noteworthy?
- Cordoba was noteworthy not only because of the brilliance of its intellectual and artistic life but also because of the role women played in it.
- Elsewhere in the Islamic world there were certainly a few unusual women associated with cultural and scholarly life. But at Cordoba this was a general phenomenon: women were not only doctors, teachers, and librarians but also worked as copyists for the many books widely in demand.
Why did the Islamic world of the tenth and eleventh centuries remain an integrated culture?
- This was partly due to the model of intellectual life fostered by the Abbasids, which even in decline was copied by the new regional rulers.
- It was also due to the common Arabic language, the glue that bound the astronomer at Cordoba to the merchant in Cairo.
When was paper introduced to the Islamic world? Where was it produced?
- Invented in China, paper was introduced to the Islamic world in the eighth century.
- Baghdad and Damascus became centers of production, turning rags into sheets that were sold throughout Islamic lands and beyond.
What was behind the intellectual prowess that characterized the medieval Islamic world?
What was taught to children in the Islamic world?
What did al-Qabisi say about education?
- Conservative educator al-Qabisi (d.1012) warned that "a girl that can write is a cause for fear," he also insisted that parents send both boys and girls to school to learn "vocalization, spelling, good handwriting, and good reading.
- He even admitted that learning about "famous men and of chivalrous knights" might be acceptable.
What facilitated trade in the Islamic world?
- Educated in similar texts across the whole Islamic world and speaking a common language, Muslims could easily communicate, and this facilitated open networks of trade.
- With no national barriers to commerce and few regulations, merchants regularly moved from one region to another, dealing in various and sometimes exotic goods.
Name some examples of trade relationships in the Islamic world.
- From England came tin and salt;
- ivory, slaves, and gold arrived from Timbuktu in west-central Africa.
- Slavic regions and Rus' supplied slaves, gold, amber, and copper.
- Merchants from Islamic lands set up permanent headquarters in China and South-East Asia to sell flax and linen from Egypt (as we have seen), pearls from the Persian Gulf, and ceramics from Iraq.
How was most of this trade financed?
What torn the Islamic culture apart?
- Only the religion of Islam pulled Islamic culture apart.
- In the tenth century the split between the Sunni and Shi'ites widened as various sects elaborated on the foundations of their divergent beliefs.
Who is al-Mufid? What did he believe in?
- An example of the split between the Sunnis and Shi'ites was found in the eloquent spokesmen of Shi'ism, al-Mufid.
- The use of reason (guided by revelation) in theology and the need for interpretation in jurisprudence were at the core of al-Mufid's teachings.
- He argued that the imamate (the true successors of Muhammad) resided not in the caliph nor in any political ruler. Rather, it inhered in men of great religious learning, and it would continue to do so until the end of time, when the Mahdi - the Islamic redeemer - would reappear.
How did the Buyids handle the Abbasids?
- Imami quietism - its dissociation of Shi'ism from political power - was useful to the Buyids.
- Ruling a primarily Sunni population in Iraq and bolstered by a mainly Sunni Turkish army, the Buyids allowed the Abbasid caliphs to remain at Baghdad, yet deprived them of a political role.
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