Topic 1.2 Developments in Dar-al-Islam 1200-1450

What is Dar-al-Islam ?

• Conquered people who adopt both Arab and Muslim culture

• A term used to describe all states controlled by an Islamic government

• A term used to describe the Mongol conquests of Islamic lands

• People in West Africa who went on the caravan with Mansa Musa

diagnoses, hospitals and traveling clinics were

• Islamic attempts to control the lower classes

• new ideas passed along the Silk Road from China

• ways Persian scholars advanced medicine

• ways Islamic scholars advanced medicine

Who was Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ?

• A Persian doctor who worked on traveling clinics with the caravans

• A Muslim Persian who built the House of Wisdom in Baghdad

• a Muslim Persian mathematician who invented trigonometry

• a Muslim explorer who spent 30 years exploring Dar-al-Islam

Turko-Persian Sunni invaders who displaced much of the Abbasid and Byzantine territory in the Middle East (Persia) and Anatolia in the 11^th century CE.

• The Four Caliphs

• Mughals

• Delhi Sultanate

• Seljuks

The first Muslim empire in India from 1206-1526 that dealt with constant Hindu-Muslim conflicts

• Sikhism

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Delhi Sultanate

• Seljuk Empire

What was the "House of Wisdom"?

• A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Delhi Sultanate until its destruction by the Hindus in 1258 CE.

• A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the West Africans until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.

• A holding place for knowledge in Timbuktu for the West Africans until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.

• A holding place for knowledge in Baghdad for the Abbasids until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258 CE.

How did Muslims contribute to European knowledge of Plato and Aristotle?

• They preserved and translated Greek texts.
• They taught in universities in Europe
• They met with Catholics to discuss philosophy
• They painted beautiful pictures of ancient philosophers

Which phrase best explains the importance of Baghdad?

• birthplace of Muhammad
• main center of new inventions
• capital of the Abbasid caliphate
• blend of Spanish and Arab culture

Medieval Muslims adapted and improved the astrolabe to use for

• defense
• printing
• irrigation
• navigation

I am important in mathematics. I came to Muslim lands from India. My name comes from an Arabic word. What am I?

• zero
• number
• division
• calculus