Transcript A Brief History of Islam: Rise and Expansion

A Brief History of Islam:
Rise, Expansion, Current Issues,
and Orientalism
FOR
WORLD LITERATURE II
FALL 2010 – R. RAMOS
INFO ADAPTED FROM PAUL FLESHER
ALL MATERIAL © COPYRIGHT 1998. THIS
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Islamic World Today
Origins—Mohammed (570 AD-632 AD)
Life & Death in the
Arabian Peninsula
 Mohammed's birth in
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Mecca (570)
Mohammed marries
Khadija (595)
Mohammed begins
receiving the Quran (611)
Hijra to Medina (622)
Mohammed's followers
conquer Mecca (630)
Mohammed dies (632)
Map of “Arabia before the
Prophet”
Expansion of and Changes in Islam after
Mohammed’s Death
Formative stage— Four
Righteous Caliphs (632-661)
 Abu Bakr (632-634)
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Egypt, North to Syria,
East to Iran.
Umar (634-644)
Text of Quran
established
Uthman (644-656)
Ali (656-661)
The Early Empires—
Classical Islam (661-1258)
 Islam moves West across N.
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Africa to Spain, East to India,
and north to Samarkand.
Umayyad Dynasty (661-750)
Shia group separates from rest of
ummah (Sunni) (680s)
Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258)
Ismaili Shia founded (765)
Twelver Shia founded (874)
Fatimid Dynasty in Egypt (9091171)
Authoritative Hadith (prophetic
traditions) collections (800s-900s)
Christian Crusades to the Holy
Land (1095-1270)
Map of the Expansion of Islam, by 800 AD
Islam in the next 800 Years
The Later Empires (12581918)
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Dehli Sultanates of North India (1200-1526)
Muslim States in Southern India (1350-1680)
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Ottoman Empire (1380-1918)
Ottomans conquer Christian-ruled
Constantinople, rename it Istanbul (1453)
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Christians drive last of Muslims out of Spain.
(1492)
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Safavid dynasty in Iran (1501-1799)
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Mughal dynasty in India (1526-1857)
Taj Mahal completed (1654)
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Napolean invades Egypt (1798)
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Christian colonization of N. Africa and
Middle East (1815-1900)
Modern Period: 20th & 21st
Century
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Ottoman Empire divided among
European powers (1918)
Muslim Brotherhood founded in Egypt
(1928)
Arab-Israel war (1948)
Palestine Liberation Organization
founded (1964)
Iranian revolution (1979)
Liberation of countries from various
European colonial rule (1919-1984)
First Gulf War in Iraq (1991-1992)
Taliban rule of Afghanistan (19942001)
9/11/2001 Terrorist attacks by alQaida, funded by Saudi Arab Osama
bin Laden
War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
Second Gulf War in Iraq (2003-present)
The Ottoman Empire
Dismembered in the 20th Century
In 1900
After World War I, 1918
Edward Said on “Orientalism”
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