MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The Rise of Islam

Arabian Peninsula
Arabs
Islam
Semitic languages (e.g. Arabic and Hebrew)
Semites
Razzia
Sheik
Blood feud
Infanticide
Hejaz
Mecca
Kaaba
Allah-Taala
Yathrib
Jiddah
Mohammed ibn Abdullah (570-632)
Abu Talib
Khadijah
Gabriel
Islam (submission to the will of Allah)
Moslem (Muslim)
Abu Bekr
Ali
Hegira (Hejira)
Islamic Era Date (622 CE)
Medina
Koran
Othman
Suras
Monotheism and Revelation
Angels vrs. Djin
Shaitin (from Satan)
Haj (Haji)
Jihad
Dar al Islam vrs. Dar al Harb
Harbi (non-believers)
Battle of Nihawand
Heraclius’ Failure
Heresy, Heretics, and People of the Book
Zoroastrianism
Dualism (God of good vrs. God of evil)
Ahura Mazda vrs. Ahriman
People of the Book
Jizyah
Leo III
Siege of Constantinople (717)
Greek Fire
Invasion of Spain (711)
Visigothic Kingdom
Rodrigo
Tarik
Gebel-al-Tarik (Rock of Tarik)
Battle of Lake Janda (Guadalete) (711)
Musa
Mérida
Battle of Segoyuela (712)
Battle ofCovadonga (718)
Reconquista
Galicia and Asturias
Al-Andaluz
Cordoba,  Sevilla, and Toledo rival Damascus and Baghdad
Tours (732)
Charles Martel
Berbers
Fatimah
Abu Bekr (first caliph)
Sunnites vrs. Shiites
Sunna
Omar
Othman
Ali
War of the Camel
Ommiad (Ommayad) Dynasty (661-750)
Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258)
Abbas
Abd-al-Rahman I
Emirate of Córdoba
Abd-al-Rahman III
Caliphate of Córdoba vrs. Caliphate of Baghdad
Seljuk Turks