Middle East ( )
Muslim expansion 7 th century
Muslim expansion 1300
Main dynasties Umayyads ( ) (Damascus) (In Spain until Cordoba center of learning and trade) Abbasids ( ) (Baghdad) Fatimids ( ) (Cairo) Ayyubids ( ) (Cairo) Mamluks ( ) (Cairo) Safavids ( ) (Iran) Ottomans ( ) (Constantinople/Istanbul)
Muslim Empires
Trade Routes c. 1500
Islamic world A cultural space Linked with trade, migration, pilgramage Religion as faith and as legal code Urban culture Non-Muslim communties Heterodox orders
Main dynasties Umayyads ( ) (Damascus) (In Spain until Cordoba center of learning and trade) Abbasids ( ) (Baghdad) Fatimids ( ) (Cairo) Ayyubids ( ) (Cairo) Mamluks ( ) (Cairo) Safavids ( ) (Iran) Ottomans ( ) (Constantinople/Istanbul)
Trade Routes c. 1500
Mamluk Empire
Dome of the Rock
Fatimid Coin (10 th c.) Umayyad coin (8 th c)
Madrid 13 th c
Giraldo Cathedral- Seville, Spain)
Sack of Baghdad by Mongols (1259)
Venetian Ambassador in Damascus (15 th c)
Mamluk Art
Sultan Hasan Mosque, Cairo (14 th Century)