Map Link: The Muslim East around 1090:
<http://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/historical-perspectives/
rulership-and-justice/islamic-period/images/
rul-jus-islamic-period-13.jpg>
Almoravid Empire c. 1110
Map Link: The Almoravids:
<https://cmes.uchicago.edu/sites/cmes.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/
Maps/Map%20-%20Spain%20Almoravids.pdf>
Almohad Caliphate c. 1180
Map Link: The Muslim West in the Early 13th Century:
<https://cmes.uchicago.edu/sites/cmes.uchicago.edu/files/
uploads/Maps/Map%20-%20Med%20West%20in
%20Early%2013th%20Century.pdf>
Divisions(?) in Muslim World
Geographical?
Dar al-Islam (Abode of Islam)
vs. Dar al-Kufr (Abode of Blasphemy)/
Dar al-Harb (Abode of War)
jihad = struggle (for faith) ≈ holy war
communal obligation, individual
obligation and obligation of sufficiency
on the free, adult, male and sane
Ribat Sharaf, between Nishapur
and Merv (bt. 1114)
Divisions(?) in Muslim World
Ethnic?
dhimmis (non-Muslims under
Muslim rule)
Umayyad preference for Arabs
9th-10th c. Persian cultural revival
Divisions(?) in Muslim World
Gender?
royal harims (harems)
Slavery?
Zayd ibn Haritha
‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (1039-1106)
Damascene philologist and jurist of Shafi‘ite
legal school
Wrote Kitab al-Jihad (Book of the Jihad),
which dictated over course of Muslim
years 498-99 (1105) in Mosque of Bayt
Lihya (in suburbs of Damascus). Also
dictated part of work in public again
in Jul-Aug 1105