Microsoft Word hoArab Civilizati doc

Online Sources: 

See the listing of links listed by the CMES’s (Harvard) teaching resource center: 

www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/links.html 

This resource provides links by country and by topic. 

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Words that may be spelled differently elsewhere in the Encyclopedia—check for 

uniformity: 

Sassanian=Sasanian=Sasanid 

Genghis=Genghiz=Chengiz 

Suggested Graphics: 

Map detailing Islamic expansion and locations of significant battles—should mention 

locations discussed in reading—Siffin, Qadisiya, Gaza, Mecca, Medina, Fars, Khurasan 

Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem—where it is discussed under Umayyad rule 

Map of the city of Baghdad—see p. 147 in Robinson, ed., 

Cambridge Illustrated History, 

Islamic World

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Example of calligraphy 

In the section on the flowering of Arab civilization in various fields it would be nice to 

utilize illustrations from (or like) those in 

The Genius of Arab Civilization 

Map of decentralization and fragmentation under the Abbasids 

Map of Crusades 

Map of Mongol invasions and/or Persian miniature of a Mongol being enthroned: see 

www.ee.bilkent.edu/tr/~history/pictures2/ul43.jpg