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How did Muslims treat the people that they conquered specifically under the rightly guided caliphs?
How did Muslims under the “rightly guided” caliphs treat conquered peoples?” they allowed the conquered people to follow their own religion. the Muslims treated the Christians and jews with special consideration because they were “people of the book.” they could pay taxes to get out of military duties and officials.
What event led to the division of Islam into two main groups?
A disagreement over succession after Mohammed’s death in 632 split Muslims into Islam’s two main sects, Sunni and Shia.
What were the main achievements of the Abbasid Caliphate?
The early part of the Abbasid rule was a time of peace and prosperity. Great advances were made in many areas of science, mathematics, and medicine. Schools of higher education and libraries were built throughout the empire. The culture flourished as Arabic art and architecture reached new heights.
How did the Abbasids change the caliphate and Islamic community?
The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, supporting the mawali, or non-Arab Muslims, by moving the capital to Baghdad in 762 CE. The Persian bureaucracy slowly replaced the old Arab aristocracy as the Abbasids established the new positions of vizier and emir to delegate their central authority.
What caused the split in Islam?
Though the two main sects within Islam, Sunni and Shia, agree on most of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam, a bitter split between the two goes back some 14 centuries. The divide originated with a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic faith he introduced.
What did the Abbasid caliphate do?
Between 750 and 833 the Abbasids raised the prestige and power of the empire, promoting commerce, industry, arts, and science, particularly during the reigns of al-Manṣūr, Hārūn al-Rashīd, and al-Maʾmūn.
Who ruled the Abbasid caliphate?
They ruled as caliphs for most of the caliphate from their capital in Baghdad in modern-day Iraq, after having overthrown the Umayyad Caliphate in the Abbasid Revolution of 750 CE (132 AH)….Abbasid Caliphate.
Abbasid Caliphate اَلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلْعَبَّاسِيَّةُ | |
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• 750–754 | As-Saffah (first) |
• 1242–1258 | Al-Musta’sim (last Caliph in Baghdad) |
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