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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE TIMELINE CHAPTER ONE: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW CHAPTER TWO: THE ARAB-ISLAMIC CONQUESTS CHAPTER THREE: THE UMAYYAD CALIPHATE CHAPTER FOUR: CITIES IN THE EARLY ABBASID PERIOD CHAPTER FIVE: RELIGIOUS PRACTICE, LAW AND SPIRITUALITY CHAPTER SIX: THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE EARLY TENTH CENTURY BIOGRAPHIES KHADIJA BINT KHUWAYLID ALI IBN ABU TALIB A`ISHA BINT ABU BAKR UMAR IBN AL-KHATTAB MU`AWIYA IBN ABU SUFYAN ABD AL-MALIK IBN MARWAN ABU JA`FAR AL-MANSUR HARUN AL-RASHID ABDALLAH AL-MA'MUN AMR IBN BAHR AL-JAHIZ MUHAMMAD IBN JARIR AL-TABARI AHMAD IBN HANBAL ABU MUSA BUGHA THE ELDER ABU UBAYDA AL-BUHTURI ARIB AL-MA'MUNIYA GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY PRIMARY DOCUMENTS Reading 1: Selections from the Qur'an Reading 2: Muhammad and the Quraysh Reading 3: The Conquest of Syria Reading 4: The Spoils of War Reading 5: Harun al-Rashid and the Succession Arrangement Reading 6: Housing the Turkish Units at Samarra Reading 7: The Cities of Egypt: Alexandria and al-Fustat Reading 8: The Wealth of the Abbasid Court Reading 9: The Markets of Baghdad Reading 10: The Prophet's Wisdom Reading 11: The Rules of Marriage Reading 12: The Death of al-Husayn ibn Ali Reading 13: Arib's Visit to Her Former Lover Reading 14: A New Capital in Egypt Reading 15: Abd al-Rahman III of al-Andalus
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Islam -- History.