1. Middle East (1250-1350)

2. Muslim expansion 7 th century

3. Muslim expansion 1300

4. Main dynasties Umayyads (661-750) (Damascus) (In Spain until 1492. Cordoba center of learning and trade) Abbasids (749-1258) (Baghdad) Fatimids (969-1171) (Cairo) Ayyubids (1169-1259) (Cairo) Mamluks (1259-1517) (Cairo) Safavids (1500-1722) (Iran) Ottomans (1299-1918) (Constantinople/Istanbul)

5. Muslim Empires

6. Trade Routes c. 1500

7. Islamic world A cultural space Linked with trade, migration, pilgramage Religion as faith and as legal code Urban culture Non-Muslim communties Heterodox orders

8. Main dynasties Umayyads (661-750) (Damascus) (In Spain until 1492. Cordoba center of learning and trade) Abbasids (749-1258) (Baghdad) Fatimids (969-1171) (Cairo) Ayyubids (1169-1259) (Cairo) Mamluks (1259-1517) (Cairo) Safavids (1500-1722) (Iran) Ottomans (1299-1918) (Constantinople/Istanbul)

9. Trade Routes c. 1500

10. Mamluk Empire

11. Dome of the Rock

12. Fatimid Coin (10 th c.) Umayyad coin (8 th c)

14. Madrid 13 th c

15. Giraldo Cathedral- Seville, Spain)

16. Sack of Baghdad by Mongols (1259)

17. Venetian Ambassador in Damascus (15 th c)

18. Mamluk Art

19. Sultan Hasan Mosque, Cairo (14 th Century)