Chapter Outline

I. Arabia and Muhammad (c. 571-632)

1. Arabia
2. Muhammad [IMG: Muhammad's Armies in Battle][IMG: Muhammad on a camel/ Jesus on Donkey - MS of Rashid-al-din Color]
3. Islam [IMG: Qu'ran [Kufic Script]] [TXT: Qu'ran: Surahs 1 and 47 [Surah 1: Audio | Surah 47: Audio]]

II. The Islamic Empire [WEB: EAWC: Early Islam]

1. The Early Conquests: 632-655 [IMG: Map: Muslim Expansion after Muhammad's Death]
2. Civil War: 655-661
3. The Umayyad Dynasty 661-750 [TXT: Text: Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours: Three Accounts 732]
4. Converts and Dhimmi
5. The Golden Age of the Abbasids: 750-950 [TXT: Yakut. Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000]

III. Fragmentation and New Dynasties, 950-1453

1. Iberia
2. Turks
3. Ottomans

IV. Islam, Byzantium, and the Medieval West

1. Conflict [TXT: An Arab Ambassador in Constantinople, late 10th Century]
2. Trade
3. Intellectual Contacts [TXT: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (973-1037): On Medicine, c. 1020]