HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION I
Study Guide and Question for Topic 6;
The Flowering of the Muslim World Under the Early Abbasids
 

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Identification Items
Identify and be able to discuss the importance of the following items:
 Dhimmis, Kharaj (Land Tax), Abu Al-Abbas (750-754 CE), Abu Jafar,  Marwan (744-750 CE), Khalid ibn Barmak,  Harun al-Rashid (786-809 CE), Zubaidah, Khaizuran, Al-Amin, Al-Mamun, Abd-al-Rhaman, Idrisids, Aghlabids, Qairawan, Fez, Fatimids, Tulunids, Qarmatians, Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids
Essays
1.  Discuss the social, political, and religious reasons for the overthrow of the Umayyads?  Why were the Sh'ites unhappy with Abbasid rule?  Why did the Abbasids move their capitol to Baghdad?  Why were the Abbasids unable to unify the Islamic world?
2.  Discuss the differences between Umayyad rule and Abbasid rule?  
3.  Essentially, what were the major causes of the decline of the Abbasid empire?
Reading Assignment
Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapter 6

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