Middle East (1250-1350)

Muslim expansion 7th century

Muslim expansion 1300

Main dynasties

Umayyads (661-750) (Damascus)(In Spain until 1492. Cordoba center of learning and trade)

Abbasids (749-1258) (Baghdad) Fatimids (969-1171) (Cairo) Ayyubids (1169-1259) (Cairo) Mamluks (1259-1517) (Cairo) Safavids (1500-1722) (Iran) Ottomans (1299-1918)

(Constantinople/Istanbul)

Muslim Empires

Trade Routes c. 1500

Islamic world

• A cultural space

• Linked with trade, migration, pilgramage

• Religion as faith and as legal code

• Urban culture

• Non-Muslim communties

• Heterodox orders

Main dynasties

• Umayyads (661-750) (Damascus)(In Spain until 1492. Cordoba center of learning and trade)

• Abbasids (749-1258) (Baghdad)• Fatimids (969-1171) (Cairo)• Ayyubids (1169-1259) (Cairo) • Mamluks (1259-1517) (Cairo)• Safavids (1500-1722) (Iran) • Ottomans (1299-1918)

(Constantinople/Istanbul)

Trade Routes c. 1500

Mamluk Empire

Dome of the Rock

Fatimid Coin (10th c.)Umayyad coin (8th c)

Madrid 13th c

Giraldo Cathedral- Seville, Spain)

Sack of Baghdad by Mongols (1259)

Venetian Ambassador in Damascus (15th c)

Mamluk Art

Sultan Hasan Mosque, Cairo (14th Century)