Arab settlement and spread of Islam to 1200 Map

Arab settlement and spread of Islam to 1200 Map

This map from 1200 AD / 596 AH shows the expansion of Islam that had occurred before and leading up to 1200. This connects to and is important to our understanding of how Islam interacted with other religions and cultures throughout its expansion because with the spread of this new religion, it was seeping into areas that were primarily dominated by other religions and cultures that the Arab conquests chose to take over, ultimately leading to the interaction between ideas of the many religions in the Near East and beyond, as seen in the map.

c.1200. Arab settlement and spread of Islam to 1200. https://library.artstor.org/asset/ARTSTOR_103_41822000525475.

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