• Week Seven
    February 22-24
    Abbasid Revolution, Baghdad, Organization of the Caliphate

    Samarra
    Samarra (Iraq), the Great Mosque
    • Read: Kennedy, pp. 122-155
    • Read 2 of the following, and submit one form - due Sunday February 20.
    • Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse, "The Abbasid Caliphate" from their Mohammed, Charlemagne & The Origins of Europe.  Study Guide for Hodges and Whitehouse.
    • David J. Wasserstein.  "The Caliphal Institution in al-Andalus until 422/1031" from his The Caliphate in the West.  Study Buide for Wasserstein.
    • C. E. Bosworth, "The Concept of Dhimma in Early Islam," in Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis (eds), Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society, vol. I.  Study Guide for Bosworth.
    • Additional Readings for Week Seven.