For Thursday's lecture, we backtracked a little bit to finish talking about the time up until the crusades, then we finished up Crusader Jerusalem, and moved onto the Mamluks. Before the crusades we had the Abbasid Dynasty that ruled out of Baghdad and was in power from 750-969. Al-Mamum claims that he built the Dome of the Rock, but when he changed the name, he forgot to change the date so it was clear that he was lying. The Fatimids were a group of Ismaili Muslims who ruled out of Egypt from 969-1099 and depending on the ruler the Fatimids either tolerated or persecuted those who were not Muslim.
Finishing up the crusades, Saladin conquers Jerusalem and Jerusalem eventually surrenders to Saladin in 1187. After he wins the city, Saladin allows people to leave. In learning about Ayyubid Jerusalem, we learned about the 3rd-7th crusades.
Mamluk means owned and the Mamluks were slaves who became soldiers and converted to Islam. It was a grassroots slave movement. Their architecture included red and white stones, maqarnas which are architectural features, and the buildings would have a semi-dome and a large niche. They established Islamic schools known in Arabic as madrasa, and they built on the western and northern sides of the temple mount, which today is the area known as the Islamic quarter.
Finishing up the crusades, Saladin conquers Jerusalem and Jerusalem eventually surrenders to Saladin in 1187. After he wins the city, Saladin allows people to leave. In learning about Ayyubid Jerusalem, we learned about the 3rd-7th crusades.
Mamluk means owned and the Mamluks were slaves who became soldiers and converted to Islam. It was a grassroots slave movement. Their architecture included red and white stones, maqarnas which are architectural features, and the buildings would have a semi-dome and a large niche. They established Islamic schools known in Arabic as madrasa, and they built on the western and northern sides of the temple mount, which today is the area known as the Islamic quarter.
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