The Caliphate and the First Islamic Dynasty (Umayyad Dynasty)
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. Section of the University of Calgary's "The Islamic World to 1600" online presentation; covers the history, pol ...
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The 'Abbasid caliphate
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Abbasid. An account of the dynasty, with particular reference to their impact on the city of Baghdad. ...
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UmayyadCaliphate
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. This outline focuses on its impact in Syria, and relations with the Christian community. ...
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Usman dan Fodio and the Sokoto Caliphate
Regional - Africa - Nigeria - Society and Culture - History - Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate. A history of the Sokoto Caliphate and its origins in the disenchantment of Muslim scholars and teachers with the insecurity of the Hausa states and Borno. ...
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Ceremonial and Art at the Umayyad Court
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. An extract from Oleg Grabar's PhD dissertation; the development of royal ceremonial under the Umayyads went han ...
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Some Contributions of the Sokoto Caliphate Scholars to the Study of Medicine
Regional - Africa - Nigeria - Society and Culture - History - Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate. Includes a brief history of the Sokoto Jihad (1804-1810) aimed at the restoration of Islam in Hausaland, which led to the Sokoto Caliphate; and a discussion of medical scholars of the time. ...
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Umayyad Dirhams and their Mints
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. Explores the production of coinage in the Umayyad Caliphate; includes a list of mints, photos of coins, and a b ...
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Civil War and the Umayyad Dynasty
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. Summarises the origin of the Ummayad Caliphate at the time of the split between Sunni and Shia. Also covers the ...
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Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Abbasid. Chapter 5 of a book by Gaston Wiet describes the intellectual, cultural and scientific ferment of the Abbasid c ...
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The Art of the Umayyad Period (661-750 A.D.)
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. An online exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores the formative contribution of the pe ...
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The Umayyad Great Mosque
Regional - Middle East - Syria - Governorates - Damascus - Society and Culture. An account of the Great Mosque of Damascus, the first monumental work of architecture in Islamic history; includes a pho ...
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The Umayyad Great Mosque, Damascus
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad. A photograph of the exterior of the mosque. ...
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The Malam Haliru Memorial Page
Regional - Africa - Nigeria - Society and Culture - History - Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate. A collection of documentation about a historian who lived in Wurno, Nigeria, sometime capital of the Sokoto Caliphate. ...
human.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp
The Art of the Umayyad Period in Spain (711-1031 A.D.)
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad - Ummayad - Cordoba. An online exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores the achievements ...
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Turkish Empire
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Christianity - Denominations - Catholicism - Reference - Catholic Encyclopedia - T. Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ruins of the Byzantin ...
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Karbala and the Imam Husayn in Persian and Indo-Muslim literature
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - Shia - People - Ibn Ali, Husayn. Academic paper examines the martyrdom of the Prophet's grandson at the hands of the Umayyad troops, and its impact on lat ...
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The Mongol Khâns
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Khanid. Part of a larger article on the Mongol Khans, dealing with their impact on the Abbasid Caliphate, and their defe ...
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The Abassid Dynasty
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Abbasid. A summary of the second Arab Caliphate, their achievements, and threats to their rule. Also covers the developm ...
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Abbasid Caliphs
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Abbasid. Part of a longer article on the history of Islam; outlines the Abbasid caliphate, independent and alongside oth ...
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Samanid Renaissance and Establishment of Tajik Identity
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Samanid. A paper by Iraj Bashiri describes the context in which the Samanid culture of Transoxiana and Khurasan flourish ...
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The Middle Ages: Seljuks
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Seljuk. Brief survey of the impact of the Seljuks, as guardians of the declining Abbasid caliphate, building an empire c ...
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Islam
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History. A multimedia presentation of the history of Islam, from pre-Islamic society to the decline of the Caliphate. ...
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The Four Righteous Caliphs
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Early. A history of the first four caliphs to rule after the death of Muhammad, until the rise to power of the Umayyad dynasty. Includes a map. ...
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Omayyad Caliphs of Spain
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Ummayad - Ummayad - Cordoba. An account of the Caliphate in the wider context of the Muslim world; includes a list of th ...
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The Art of the Abbasid Period (750-1258 A.D.)
Society - Religion and Spirituality - Islam - History - Dynasties and Empires - Abbasid. An online exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) offers a profile of the caliphate, and illu ...