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Chapter 10, Section 3 “Muslim Culture”

I. Muslim Society

A. The Rise of Muslim Cities

1. Baghdad – Abbasid capital city

a. shops, marketplace; large population (1 million)

B. Four Social Classes

1. Muslim by birth

2. converts to Islam

3. Christians, Jews

4. slaves

C. Role of Women

1. equal to men, spiritually

2. marriage, family, & property rights under sharia

a. more rights than European, Indian, & Chinese women

3. expected to submit to men

4. in early days, could participate in public life & gain an education

5. over time, forced to increasingly isolated lives

II. Muslim Scholarship Extends Knowledge A. House of Wisdom

1. translated texts from Greece, India, & Persia into Arabic III. Art and Sciences Flourish

A. Muslim Literature 1. The Thousand and One Nights

a. collection of fairy tales, parables, & legends B. Muslim Art & Architecture

1. images of living beings discouraged a. Calligraphy: ornamental writing

2. cultural blending seen through architecture C. Math and Science

1. Al-Khwarizmi – mathematician a. al-jabr, or algebra

2. astronomy a. needed to fulfill fasting, hajj, & prayer

Daily Essential Question

1. List some Muslim achievements during their golden age.

The Great Mosque of Damascus