Chapter 07 Reading Selection - Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to south and Southeast Asia
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
Islam [2]
religion [3]
culture [4]
Muslim conquests [5]
Sharia [6]
Spread of Islam [10]
Muslim world [12]
Abbasid Caliphate [13]
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Introduction
By the middle of the ninth century C.E., the Abbasid dynasty had begun to lose control over its empire. Rebellious states, military regimes, and religious dissenters broke apart the political unity of Islam. Mongol armies finally conquered the steadily diminishing Abbasid heartland in the 13th century C.E. Although the political unity of Islam was forever shattered, the last centuries of Abbasid rule witnessed a period of cultural creativity and the expansion of Islam into South and Southeast Asia and Africa.
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The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras