World History › Section I · Islam and the caliphates › Topic I.3
Islamization and religious rule
In 750 a revolution replaced the Umayyads with the Abbasids, who built Baghdad and sponsored a great age of learning. This topic follows how religious authority, the Sunni-Shia divide and the slow conversion of a mostly non-Muslim population took shape.
In this topic
- The Abbasid revolution
- Baghdad and Persian ways
- The translation movement
- Worked example: why translate?
- Sunni and Shia
- The ulama and the caliph
- A caliphate in pieces
- Life as a dhimmi
- Worked example: counting converts
- Arabic and Islam: two processes
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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