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Chapter 2.3 Class Notes: Muslim Ways of Life

Chapter 2.3 Class Notes: Muslim Ways of Life. Muslims were leading merchants. Not just goods but ideas as well…. I. TRADE AND EVERYDAY LIFE. Muslims were the leading merchants in the Middle East/North Africa until the 1400s. Muslims were successful because: The Arabic language Coins

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Chapter 2.3 Class Notes: Muslim Ways of Life

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  1. Chapter 2.3 Class Notes: Muslim Ways of Life Muslims were leading merchants.

  2. Not just goods but ideas as well…

  3. I. TRADE AND EVERYDAY LIFE • Muslims were the leading merchants in the Middle East/North Africa until the 1400s. • Muslims were successful because: • The Arabic language • Coins • Detailed record keeping • Banking • Mosques and Bazaars (marketplaces) were in every city. • Most Muslims lived in villages and farmed using advanced irrigation.

  4. The Blue Mosque, Istanbul

  5. Bazaar

  6. Muslim Society • Men ran government and business while women ran the family. Women could inherit wealth and property. Women often had to cover their faces and wear long robes in public. Non-Muslims were enslaved.

  7. II. Muslim Achievements: The Golden Age • Arabic helped people trade goods and knowledge. • Abbasid Caliph Mamun founded the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. • Muslim scholars preserved much learning of the ancient world (science, philosophy, literature).

  8. Baghdad, Iraq and the House of Wisdom

  9. Great Muslim Scholars Ibn Sina • Muslim scholars invented Algebra, used Arabic numerals,and perfected the Greek astrolabe, a tool used to study the stars. They advanced medicine and astronomy and founded chemistry. • Al-Razi, a chemist, categorized substances as animal, mineral, or vegetable. • Ibn Sina, a Persian doctor, showed how diseases spread from person to person.

  10. Great Muslim Scholars • Omar Khayyam, a mathematician and poet,wrote the Rubaiyat, one of the finest poems ever written. • Historian Ibn Khaldun studied the effects of geography and climate on people. He said, “All civilizations rise, grow, and fall.” • The Arabian Nights is a famous work of Muslim literature.

  11. Mosques

  12. Alhambra Palace Granada, Spain

  13. THE TAJ MAHAL Agra, India

  14. Muslim art used designs but did not show images of Muhammad. Muslim architecture included mosques with domes and minarets-towers where a criercalled people to prayer. The Alhambrais a famous Muslim palace located in Granada, Spain. The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was created as the tomb for the wife of Shah Jahan, a Mogul ruler.

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