1. Connections: A World History
Second Edition
Chapter 11
The Origins and
Expansion of Islam,
100–750
Connections: A World History, Second Edition
Edward H. Judge • John W. Langdon
4. The Origins and Expansion of Islam
100–750
A. Pre-Islamic Arabia
B. The Rise of Islam
C. Islam Expands, 632–661
D. The Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
E. Society and Culture in Early Islam
8. Pre-Islamic Arabia
B. The Collapse of Southern Arabia and the
Rise of Mecca
1. Challenges and competition
2. The introduction of monotheism
3. Destruction of southern Arabian states
4. Mecca
17. Islam Expands, 632–661
A. An Agreement Between Leader and
Followers
1. Succession crisis
2. The caliphate
3. Jihad and the two houses
4. The caliphate as empire
21. The Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
A. Umayyad Expansion
1. Centralization and expansion
2. Commerce and expansion
B. Collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate
1. The Abbasids
26. Society and Culture in Early Islam
B. Legal Uniformity: The Shari`ah
1. Islamic law and daily life
2. Gender and Islamic law
B. Tolerance of Other Faiths
27. Salat, or ritual worship, mandates a sequence of
prayers to be performed five times each day