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Franks, Mongols And Turks
Multicultural Diversity in Early Islam Humans throughout history have banded together in groups, from families and tribes to races and nations. Ever since these groups began to form, they have been affecting each other and impacting each other’s cultures and ways of living. During the Middle Ages, this kind of cross-cultural impact was happening all across Europe, Asia and Northern Africa. As the different political and military powers gained supremacy, kingdoms expanded, empires collapsed, and whole new nations were formed. Waves of Asian tribes flowed across Asia and into Europe, the Byzantine Empire flourished, then finally fell, and the Frankish people of Western Europe set up their own kingdoms. In the midst of all of this were the Muslims, who were, perhaps, the group most often impacted by outside influences. The original Arab Muslims might have begun as the power within the community of Islam, but by the end of the Middle Ages, barely 700 years after the Prophet’s death, several other groups had invaded, been conquered by, or simply included into the sphere of Islamic influence. All of these groups had effects on the Muslims, including how they governed, their literature and art, and their economy. The Turkish tribes from Asia had an enormous impact on Muslim society when they invaded. Many of them converted to Sunni Islam and lived among the Islamic people. When Tughril Beg and Chagri Beg united the Seljuk Turks, they conquered the weakened Ghaznavids, then the Sassanids and the Buyids, essentially reuniting the old Abbasid Empire. Later they pushed into Asia Minor and Armenia and eventually they were in control of the majority of the Islamic world east of the Mediterranean. Rather than set up a Turk as Caliph – and cause riots and rebellions among the Muslims - the Seljuks set up the Caliphate with a purely religious leader and Tughril Beg became the first Sultan. This was the first t... Please login to view comments from other users.
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