The Four “Rightly Guided” Caliphs, c. 632-661 CE Onward... Religion & Politics: Prophets, Schisms & the Umma The Sassanians of Ctesiphon, Iraq, c. 225 through 650 CE) The Achaemenids of Persepolis, Iran, c. 510 BCE through 325 BCE) Beginning of Islamic calendar, Arabian Peninsula, 622 CE Dissemination of Islam, c. 632-660: Syria, Iraq, parts of Iran, parts of North Africa The Umayyads of Damascus, 661-750 CE Birth of Muhammad, c. 570 CE The Abbasids of Baghdad & Samarra, 750-c.1253 CE
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The Four “Rightly Guided” Caliphs, c. 632-661 CE
Onward...
Religion & Politics: Prophets, Schisms & the Umma
The Sassanians of Ctesiphon, Iraq, c. 225 through 650 CE)
The Achaemenids of Persepolis, Iran, c. 510 BCE through 325 BCE)
Beginning of Islamic calendar, Arabian Peninsula, 622 CE
Dissemination of Islam, c. 632-660: Syria, Iraq, parts of Iran, parts of North Africa
The Umayyads of Damascus, 661-750 CE
Birth of Muhammad, c. 570 CE
The Abbasids of Baghdad & Samarra, 750-c.1253 CE
Three Principal Goals for Topic 1
1. The Inheritance of Islam - regional context
2. Islam as a political system - “conquest”
3. How we know what we know - the generation of “knowledge”
Islam as a political system - “conquest”
Karbala
Palmyra
Ctesiphon
Persepolis
Jerusalem
The Inheritance of Islam - regional context
EgyptGreat Temple of Hatshepsut. Deir
el Bahri, Egypt. C. 1465 BCE
Great Temple of Amun. Karnak, Egypt.C. 1465 BCE
The Inheritance of Islam - regional context
Islam on the “Silk Road” & the Indian Ocean
Networks of the Pre-Modern World
The Inheritance of Islam - regional context
“Middle East”: Legacies of Greeks and Romans
Corinthian Temple (“Maison carée”). Nîmes, France. Dedicated 4 CE.
“Middle East”: Legacies of Greeks and RomansPalmyra, Syria: Monumental Arcade c. 2nd century CE
Romans in Syria by 1st century CE
How we know what we know - the generation of “knowledge”Multiple “Pasts” & “Presents”
How we know what we know - the generation of “knowledge”Multiple “Pasts” & “Presents”
Louis VignesTwo-part panorama featuring Colonnade Street, 1864. Albumen print. 8.8 x 11.4 in. (22.5 x 29 cm), each
print. The Getty Research Institute, 2015.R.15
Colonnade Street with plan. Jean-Baptiste Liénard Lepagelet after Louis-François Cassas. Etching. From Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte (Paris, ca. 1799), vol. 1, pl. 53. The Getty Research Institute, 840011
Multiple “Pasts” & “Presents”
How we know what we know - the generation of “knowledge”
Plan of the Temple of Bel. Charles-Nicolas Varin after Louis-François Cassas. Etching. From Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoénicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse
Egypte (Paris, ca. 1799), vol. 1, pl. 28. The Getty Research Institute, 840011