1. Rise and Role of Dar al-Islam
Dr. Afxendiou
AP World History 9
Sachem North High School

2. What is Dar al-Islam?

3. Rise of Islam Muhammad Beliefs Timeline: 610 Angel Gabriel
622 flight to Yathrib (Medina) – hijra (hegira) (marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar)
preaches religion there (line of prophets)
Qur’an
Community of believers – Muslims
629 – pilgrimage to Mecca
630 – conquers Mecca
632 – Muhammad dies – no successor
650 – Qur’an finished
Beliefs
5 pillars
equal before god

4. What was there about Islam that allowed a pastoral nomadic society to achieve a global civilization?

5. Unified, channeled aggressive culture
What was there about Islam that allowed a pastoral nomadic society to achieve a global civilization?
Unified, channeled aggressive culture
Everyone should be converted to the faith – not applied beyond conquest
What else made expansion possible?
*disciplined armies
*weakness of surrounding empires (Byzantine and Persian)

6. Role of Islam In what sense did Islam achieve global status by 850?
Islam as global power
In what sense did Islam achieve global status by 850?

7. Role of Islam Islam as global power - conquest
Islam as global culture - trade unites world

8. Umayyad v. Abbasid
How was the Abbasid Empire different from the Umayyad Empire?