Trade
- Routes
- silk route
- controlled routes between europe and asia
- muslim trade routes connected asia and the mediterranean
- traders spred muslim culture to europe
- went to africa
- Bank system
- sharia law and pracical applicatio
- prohibits fixed or floating payment for investing money
- Sakks
- islamic equivilant to the financial bond that is having a fixed nominal money value
- What they traded
- slaves, silk, jews, ivory, animals,food, carvings,medicines
- who they traded to
- chinese
- china and muslims were more advanced
- what currency
- based on guarantees by government to honor a stated value
- based on the hold dinar which was a widely circulated currency
Islam Literature
- Genres
- Poetry was mostly used
- pop poems:
- Asiqa
- Nuh Sipihr
- Bag va Bahar
- poem types
- Qasida
- 2o to 100 verses, single ryme
- Ghazel
- love poem
- Qitah
- Jokes, word games, codes
- Masnavi
- doubled one, long story strung together by thousands of verses
- Robai
- Four line cerse 1,2,4 lines ryme
- Maqama
- difficult to comprehend
- Qasida
- Authors
- Abull Hansan
- poet from daylam during the buyid period
- Abu tammam
- poet of hamasah
- ferdowsi
- author of shahnameh written for the princes of samanid dynasty
- Abull Hansan
- One thousand and One Nights
- arabian Nights
- translated in 1706
- earliest tales from persia and india were translated into aribic in the8th century
- others were added in the 10th century
- Frame Story
- chick was telling her man who was gonna get executed, story at night but didnt finish it.
- lots of stories
- Shahnameh
- long epic poem
- written by Ferdowsi
- 60,000 verses
- 977-1010 ad was when it was written
- tells the past of iran
- starts at the creation of the world
- 3 sections
- heroic section takes 2/3 the book
Muslim art and Architecture]
- mosque of the prophet
- built in 622 when they reahced the city of yathrib
- enlarged to twice its size in 707 after the death of the profet
- Arabesque
- circular dome
- decorative patterns that were repeated
- interior vaulted spaces
- started righ after the passing of muhammad
- very detailed artwork
- Calligraphy
- form of artwork
- based off of arabic script which was used by all muslims in their own language
- Math used in art and architicture
- art and tools
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