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Poetry from the early Islamic societies provides insight on internal thoughts, feelings or emotions regarding how beauty, virtues, and goodness were…

In this time period, there starts to become a separation between religious and political leaders, and how military regimes shaped social structures.…

Map of Early Islamic Expansion

The defeat of Yazdegerd III, along with the collapse of the Sasanian government, led to the destruction of the empire by the mid-7th century.…

The formation of the early Sunni identity was largely shaped in response to rival or opposition movements. Khariji Islam contributed to the protest of…

Al-Walīd became caliph in 705 CE, but broke moral virtues and expectations of the Islamic society, one of which was publicly drinking wine. Yazīd…

The Abbasid rule was under severe disputes of who should have the right to rule. The Abbasids themselves set a violent precedent by killing a large…

Islam itself emerged within the context of pre-Islamic Arabia, making the Arabian environment a rather notable aspect of producing the Islamic…

During the Umayyad period, Muslim governance was not yet established, so the Islamic governmental structure was based on tribal and Arab identities,…

Urban commercial economies and universalism greatly contributed to the shaping of the Near Eastern society by introducing different religion and…