![]() Were hundreds of ships: warships, trading vessels including Chinese junks and Muslim merchants were as far north as Korea.Īt Baghdad, the Tigris River was 750 feet wide. ![]() In the 800s, residing in Guangzhou China were overġ00,000 Arabs, Persians and Jews who had voyaged across the Indian Ocean on Muslim traders and mariners were spreading their Arab merchants were a familiar site in India. The Mediterranean and extended across the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East. Caravans connected Aden, Syria and Egypt,Īnd they connected Baghdad to India and China. With an increase in trade the Islamic empire going into the 800s was having its "goldenĪge." Islam had no scorn for the merchant as did Christians and Confucians – In the holy cities of Medina and Mecca asceticism remained an ideal, but luxury and the pursuit of pleasure were fact. There were also Persian titles, Persian wives, mistresses, wines and Persian garments – while Arabic remained as the language of Islam. And at the Abbasid court were Persian refinement and urbanity. They built a skilled bureaucracy and professionalĪrmy, manned to a large extent by those who had helped the Abbasids to power. They gave prominence in state affairs to Islamic theologians and toĮxperts in Islamic law. The Abbasids began ruling with a show of Islamic piety, and they spoke of ![]() The ruins of the old Persian capital, Ctesiphon, a town with a Persian name: Baghdad. Village on the west bank of the Tigris River, near The new line of caliphs would be from the family of Abbas, known as the Abbasids.Īnd in 750 the capital of Islam moved from Damascus to what had been a small Christian The Abbasid Caliphate at its greatest extent, around 850 CE (Wikipedia Commons) ![]()
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