Part IV: Medieval Islam, 1000-1500

Poetry about Buttocks

This poem discusses the feeling of being tortured and oppressed by the ass of a woman, which is indeed metaphorical, but these emotions are evoked…

In this final part of Berkey's analysis, he traces the evolution of Islam to large empires such as the Ottomans. He highlights the dynamics of Islamic…

In addition to the first contextualization, in this final section, Berkey places the later Islamic empires as the heirs to centuries of not only…

Jug with Horsemen

This object is a ceramic jug, decorated with mounted horsemen and Arabic inscriptions, created during the Seljuk period (1180-1250 CE) in Iran. It…

Aftermath: Two Examples of Fate's Inscrutability"

In this excerpt from Usama ibn Munqidh's "The Book of Contemplation", he recalls a moment of turmoil in Fatimad Egypt after the attempted murder plot…