HINE 128History of the Middle East: The Early Medieval Period, 500–1000

4 units · HINE · UC San Diego

This class covers the history of the Middle East and the larger Mediterranean world from 500 to 1000. It surveys the late antique world in the sixth century and the birth of Islam, the rise of the early Islamic empires stretching from Central Asia to Spain, and the creation of a larger Arabo-Islamic culture in the Abbasid Empire. +