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2) The Abbasid Empire and Sec
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Accounting
1st Grade
04/26/2009

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Abu Muslim of Khurasan
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Abbasid victory in 750
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lead to the creation of the Abbasid empire in
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Al-Mansur
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second Abbasid Caliph saw himself as universal ruler with religious and secular authority
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Baghdad as capital
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wealthy as all get out
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Khurasan regiments
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brought Abbasid to victory
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Mamluks
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Turkish slave soldiers - eventually controlled caliphate from behind the scenes
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Harun al-Rashid
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5th Abbasid caliph, political and cultural boom
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Zanj Slave Revolt
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AiM led revolt by capitalizing on how pissed off they were
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Ali ibn Muhammad
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led slave revolt
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Isma’ilis (Seveners)
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last living notible immam
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Isma’ili notion of Imam
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living and infallible Immam
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Twelvers
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politcally active and subversive- 12th immam out of nowhere almost as a massiah
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The Mahdi
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"Guided One" is the prophesied redeemer of Islam
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Sufism
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the inner, mystical dimension of Islam
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Ihsan
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a sense of social responsibility borne from religious convictions
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Sunni Orthopraxy
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Sunni = practice of the prophet
it is based on the Shari’a; Islamic law
look to the Khalifa as a worldly, secular leader and they are complimented by the ulamas and the qadis; religious leaders and judges
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Sunna
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the stuff that Muhammad did “the way and the manners of the prophet”
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Shari’a
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is the body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system
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Four sources of the Shari’a
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Madrasas
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• Islamic schools
• Often sponsored by the state
• Trained the ulamas and the qadis
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Ulamas
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religious scholars
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Qadis
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judges
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