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World History
Islam in Medieval Times
Presearch Three: Muslims Innovations and Adaptations
"We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish
hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt,
was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260."
-George Sarton in the "Introduction to the History of Science"
"It was under the influence of the arabs and Moorish revival of culture and not in the 15th century,
that a real renaissance took place. Spain, not Italy, was the cradle of the rebirth of Europe. After
steadily sinking lower and lower into barbarism, it had reached the darkest depths of ignorance and
degradation when cities of the Saracenic world, Baghdad, Cairo, Cordova, and Toledo, were growing
centers of civilization and intellectual activity. It was there that the new life arose which was to
grow into new phase of human evolution.”
-Robert Briffault in the "Making of Humanity"
Themes: Scale, Cause & Effect, Models, Stability & Change
Objectives:
 Discuss the expansion of Muslim rule through military conquests and treaties,
emphasizing the cultural blending within Muslim civilization and the spread and
acceptance of Islam and the Arabic language.
 Understand the intellectual exchanges among Muslim scholars of Eurasia and Africa and
the contributions Muslim scholars made to later civilizations in the areas of science,
geography, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, art, and literature.
 Describe the Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain
that promoted creativity in art, literature, and science, including how that cooperation
was terminated by the religious persecution of individuals and groups.
 Discuss the roots of the Scientific Revolution.
Essential questions:
1. What areas did the Muslim empire control by 750 C.E.? What cultures blended to build
Islamic civilization?
2. How did Islamic civilization continue to flourish even though the Muslim empire did not
remain as one political unit? Why was the acceptance of Islam and of Arabic language
important?
3. People of three religions worked and studied together in Cordoba, Spain. What were those
three religions? What achievements came from this region of the Muslim world? Why might
this time period be termed a “golden age of cooperation”?
4. Where were Muslim trade routes established? What products and inventions traveled along
these routes? How did Muslim scholars preserve and pass on knowledge to medieval
Europe?
5. Name the contributions that Islamic civilization made in the following areas: architecture,
philosophy, science and technology, geography and navigation, medicine, bookmaking and
literature, art and music, and recreation.
All work should be recorded and filed in your ISN: Islam in Medieval Times.
This week:
Due
Points
In ISN
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1. Read Chapter 9 in The Medieval World and Beyond in your textbook or on-line.
Take the Reading Challenge on-line.
2. Answer the essential questions above.
10
3. Vocabulary Quiz
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4. Share Knowledge: Islam Inventions – see assignment sheet.
n/a
5. Paragraphs for your trader journal – complete numbers 3 & 4 on your
assignment sheet.
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