Trade
Routes
- they took over the silk route to china and became the middlemen
- they controlled the routes between Europe and Asia
- Muslim trade routes connected Asia and the Mediterranean as they traveled traders spread Muslim culture to Europe
Routes cnt.
- In Asia they penetrated as far as china and India and traveled over the silk road
- Muslim traders also traveled across Northern Africa as far as Timbuktu
Bank System
- Consistent with the principles of Sharia law and practical application
- Prohibits the fixed or floating payment for investing money
Sakks
- Islamic equivalent of the financial bond that is having fixed nominal money value.
What they traded
- Slaves silk precious jewels medicines foods carvings ivory and animals
To who
- Chinese
- China and Muslims were extremely more advanced
- they spread their culture to Europe via the Levant Sicily and Spain on the trade routes
What Currency
- Based on guarantees by a government to honor a stated value
- it was based on the gold dinar which was a widely circulated currency
Islamic Literature 8-14 century
Genres
- Poetry was mostly used back in the 8th - 14th centrury
- some of the pupular poems were- Bag va Bahar - garden and the spring- asiqa - love poems
Genres Poem tyypes
- Qasida- has 20- 100 verses and maintains a single rhyme through entire piece
- Ghazel- love lyric with 5-12 verses and was religious secular or both
- Qitah was used for jokes satire word games and codes
Authors
- Abul;l Hansan, he was a poet from daylam during the buyid period
- Abu tammam born in jasin syria
northeast of the seas of tiberias he was the poet of hamasah - ferdowsi was the author of shahnameh it was written for princes of samanid dynasty
- Mansur Al-Hallaj was revolutionary writer teacher of Sufism most famous for his poetry
- Al Jahiz was an Arabic prose was a writer and author of literature
One Thousand and One Nights
- Arabian Nights
- first English translation in 1706
- collection of stories from west and south asia
- earliest tales from Persia and India were translated into Arabic in the 8th century
- Many more stories were added from Iraqi. Egyptian and Syrian tales later in the 10th - 13th centuries
- Frame story
- the Persian Kings wife that is about to get executed tells him a story at night but doesn't finish it. the king is curious and wants to hear the end. she continues this for 1001 nights and the king spares her life.
- Varying stories historical tales love stories tragedies comedies and poems
Shahnameh
- Long epic poem
- means the Book of Kings
- written by ferdowsi a Persian poet
- sometime between 977 and 1010 ad
- contains 60,000 verses
- Tells the past of greater Iran before Islamic conquest in the 7th century
- starts at the creation of the world
- shows the creation of fire cooking and law divided into the mythical heroic and historic sections
- heroic takes up nearly 2/3s of the entire book
Muslim Art and Architecture
Muslim Famous Building
- The Mosque of the Prophet was built in 622 after they reached the city of Yathrib
- the mosque was enlarged to twice its size in 707 after the death of the prophet
Arabesque
- Features a circular dome
- stylized decorative patterns that were repeated
- interior vaulted spaces
- Might of started as early as 691AD
- for sure started right after the passing of Muhammad
Calligraphy
- Islamic Calligraphy is a form of artwork
- Islamic Calligraphy is an art form based off of Arabic Script which was used by all Muslims in their own languages
Math used in art and architecture
- Math is the foundation of art and architecture
- if any part of the math is off the whole project is off
- math has been used since the beginning of use of architecture and the making of art
- there will almost never be a properly made piece of art that doesnt use precision tolls and math
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