Remainder+of+Middle+East



Spread of Islam into the remainder of Middle East was done by invasions by Persians and the Seljuk Turks. Buyids Persia invaded the central area of Abbasid Empire and took over Baghdad. The Buyid leaders gave themselves the title of sultan(victorious in Arabic). During their time, they control the caliph and the court but however into one century of ruling by the Buyids, the Seljuk Turks invaded and ruled for the next two centuries.

Growth of trade increased, by selling and trading goods in bazaars. At bazaars, people traded and sold carpets, rugs, jewlary, and glass in exchange for foriegn goods. Spread of Islam, increased the amount of merchants and artisans because they would always making unique designs. With the increased amount of merchants, the people begin to form guildlike organizations.

With the spread of Islam and new ideas, the language of the people were all following the Arabic script. There was new achievements areas math: algebra and geometry. There was also new discoveries in chemistry about animals and specific weights to minerals. The astronomical tables and map was also far advance at the time. With new achievements there was a large amount of scholars and skilled artisians.

Religion to the people began to change when ideas blended with new areas. Sufis became great healers for the people that would go around to spread their religion to other nonbelievers. They would constantly travel, but still dancing and singing to create a new movement of the culture. With dancing and songs in their culture, it attracted new people to believe thus causing a continuous spread of Islamic culture.

People in the Middle East, did not disapprove the Islamic culture. Majority of the people were devoting their life to Islam. Statistics say that in Iraq and Iran the percentage of Muslims were 90 and above.

> Wordle displaying the Middle east. Islam spread to the Middle East through the spread of the Arabic. Its increase in achievements and scholars were an addition to its spread. Also invasion played a role to its spread. []