Trade
- Routes
- They took over the silk route to china and became the middlemen
- They controlled the routes betweeen Europe and Asia
- Muslim trade riutes connected Asia and the Mediteranean as they travled, traders spread Muslim culture to Europe
- In Asia they penetrated as far as China and India and travled over the silk road
- Muslim traders also travled 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 haing fixed nominal money value
- What they traded
- Slaves, silk, precious jewles, medicines, foodsm carvings, ivory and animals
- To Who
- Chinnese
- China and Muslims were extremely more advanced
- They seperated 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 curculated currency
Islamic Literature
- Genres
- Poetry was mostly used back in the 8th-14th century
- Some of the popular poems were
- Asiqa (lover)
- Bag va bahar (Garden and the spring)
- Nuh sipihr
- Poem types
- Qasida- has 20-100 verses and maintians a single rhyme through entire piece
- Ghazel- Love yric with 5-12 verses and was religous or seculer or both
- Qitah- was used for jokes, satire, games and codes
- Masnavi- means doubled one and is a long story strung together with 1,000 verses
- Authors
- Abul'l Hansan was a poet from daylam during the buyid period
- Abu Tammam was 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 the princes of samanid dynasty
- Mansur Al Hallaj was a revolutionary writer teacher of sufusm most famous for his potry
- Al Jahis was a arabic prose who 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
- Earliet tales from persia and India were translated into Arabic in the 8th century
- Many more stories were added from Iraqi, Egyptian times
- Frame story
- Persian kings wife is about to get exexuted and tells him a story at night but never finishes it. The king wants to know the end of the sotry sh=o she continues to tell it for 1,001 nights and he spares her life
- Shahnameh
- Long epic poem
- Means the book of kings
- written by Ferdowsi ( persian poet)
- between 977-1010 AD
- 60,000 verses
- tells the past of greater Iran
- Starts at the creation of thw world
- divided into 3 parts:
- Heroic
- Mythical
- Historical
Muslim Art and archtecture
- Muslim famous building
- Mozsque of the prophet was built in the city of Yathrib
- it was enlarged to twice it size in 707 after the death of a prophet
- Arabesque
- Features a curcular dome
- Stylized decroative patterns ther were repeated
- Interior valued spaces
- Might of started as early as 691 AD
- Um it was a building of some sort.... ok probably not... not really sure.
- Calligraphy
- Islamic calligraphy is a from of art work
- its art form based off script, this was used by all muslims in their own language
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