Transcript Chapter 2.3 class Notes Muslim Ways of Life

Chapter 2.3 class Notes
Muslim Ways of Life
I. TRADE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
• The expansion of the Arabic language, the
provision of coins by Muslim rulers, the practice
of banking were all reasons for Muslim traders
being successful in the 1400’s.
• Mosques are Muslim houses of worship
• Bazaars are marketplaces where trade took place
and they were very important for cities.
• Most Muslims lived in small villages and wealthy
landowners began to take over the farms and the
farmers worked for the landowners.
• Muslim social classes were based on power and
wealth. Government leaders, landowners, and
traders were in the higher class. Below were the
artisans, farmers, and workers. Slaves made up the
lowest class.
• Men ran government, society, and business while
women helped run the families. In many places
women had to cover their faces and wear long
robes. Women could inherit wealth and property.
II. Muslim achievements:
• Arabic Language helped different people trade
goods.
• Mamun was an Abbasid Caliph who founded the
House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
• Muslim scholars preserved much learning of the
ancient world. Muslim scholars invented Algebra
and they perfected the astrolabe, a tool used to
study the stars.
• Al-Razi, a Muslim chemist, developed a system
for categorizing substances as animal, mineral, or
vegetable. Arabs are considered the founders of
chemistry.
House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Iraq
• Ibn Sina, a Persian doctor showed how
diseases spread from person to person.
• Omar Khayyam was a great poet who
wrote the Rubaiyat, a poem considered to
be one of the finest poems ever written. The
Arabian Nights is one of the most well
known works of Muslim literature.
• Ibn Khaldun, a great Muslim historian,
was one of the first people to study the
effects of geography and climate on earth.
•Muslims developed a distinct form of art
but do not show images of Muhammad in
their art.
•Muslims have a unique architecture
including great mosques, many with domes
and minarets-towers from which a crier
calls people to prayer.
•The Alhambra is 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.
THE TAJ MAHAL
Agra, India
Alhambra Palace
Granada, Spain