5/6/2014 Impacts of Islam in Africa: 1000-1750 AD by MasonZgoda http://hubpages.com/hub/Effects-of-Islam-in-Africa 1/3 Impacts of Islam in Africa: 1000-1750 AD by MasonZgoda 25 Follow ers Fatimid Caliphate capitol Source: http://www.fanack.com Upon a split between two doctrines of Islam, the Sunni's and the Shiites, a new Islamic dynasty was founded in Egypt called the Fatimid Dynasty. After the Fatimid invasion of Egypt, Islam began to permeate through the rest of Africa. Islam's spread from 1000 AD to 1750 AD impacted Africa socially, culturally, and politically by instituting the slave trade, creating a rise in education, and adding Muslim leaders to West Africa's history. Social Impacts Africa was impacted socially by Islam through the institution of the Islamic run slave trade. When the Fatimid Dynasty established itself in Egypt it also established trading docks called entrepots in Cairo and Alexandria. These trading docks generally shipped to Arabia, the most Muslim dominated part of the world, and with increase trading opportunities came a thirst for trade expansion, which opened the door for the slave trade. Captured and sold into forced labor through the Muslim controlled trade routes, Africans became a status symbol for the wealthy in Arabia. Although Islamic writings did not prohibit slavery, they did set guidelines as to how slaves should be treated. Despite these parameters in Islamic scripture, ill treatment of slaves did exist, and the Islamic run slave trade paved the way for slave routes to Europe and the Americas in the future. Islamic Slave Routes Source: http://mrgrayhistory.wikispaces.com Cultural Impacts
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5/6/2014 Impacts of Islam in Africa: 1000-1750 AD by MasonZgoda