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Islam as a religion began to expand to places not yet conquered by the Umayyad Caliphs and their armies, resulting in an expansion of the Islamic World that was greater than the size of the actual Empire. The Empire, though, remained the primary method of Islamic Expansion in this period and this was facilitated by armies and conquest.
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What did the Shiite Muslims believe about the Umayyads?
Umayyads always controlled shia Muslims and kept Imams of shia in prison or killed them. shia Muslims hated Umayyads and always hided their beliefs to be safe from Umayyads security officers.They don't consider them right.
The followers of the Arab Umayyads were the?
Sunni Muslims
What helped the umayyads to expand their empire?
The Byzantine and Persian empires were weak.
Which group took control of the Muslims empire after the umayyads was the?
The Abbasids took control
Were the umayyads Christian or you Islamic?
Umayyads are Muslims, they represented an important Islamic age in which they ruled the Islamic country & their capital was Damascus.at first they were good rulers but then they stopped behaving like proper Muslims and started drinking wine.
What impact did umayyads have on the Islamic empire?
Umayyads are Muslims, they represented an important Islamic age in which they ruled the Islamic country & their capital was Damascus.at first they were good rulers but then they stopped behaving like proper Muslims and started drinking wine.
What areas did the umayyads add to the Muslims empire?
They conquered from westeren Spain to Central Asia. :]
What does opposition to the luxurious life of the Umayyads suggest about what is important to Muslims?
The resistance of the luxurious lifestyle that the Umayyads promoted, shows that Muslims believed happiness came from different things. They believed that their paradise is in their after life. The opposition to the Umayyads' lifestyle also developed in the cultural clash between the Arab Bedouin culture which promoted egalitarianism and retaining few possessions and the Byzantine and Sassanian cultures which were of a majestic, imperial nature. Most Muslims at the time associated Islam with the culture of the former and the Umayyads represented a continuation of the latter.
What does opposition to the luxurious life of the Umayyads suggest about what is important to most Muslims?
The resistance of the luxurious lifestyle that the Umayyads promoted, shows that Muslims believed happiness came from different things. They believed that their paradise is in their after life. The opposition to the Umayyads' lifestyle also developed in the cultural clash between the Arab Bedouin culture which promoted egalitarianism and retaining few possessions and the Byzantine and Sassanian cultures which were of a majestic, imperial nature. Most Muslims at the time associated Islam with the culture of the former and the Umayyads represented a continuation of the latter.
What problems caused the umayyads to lose support of many people in the empire?
a group called Abbasid gained support from other Muslims and when the abbasids invited the umayyads over for dinner and a meeting the abbasids left the room leaving the umayyads to be assassinated
What religions did the Umayyads control by the year 750?
The Umayyads controlled all of the areas in which Muslims lived, but also controlled the dominant regions for Coptic Christians, Assyrian Christians, Donatists, Justianians, Nestorians, and Zoroastrians. They also had significant minorities of the world population of Jews and Orthodox Christians.
Which of the following characterized Sunni Muslims and not Shiite Muslims?
Sunni muslims follow the sunnah of Muhammad (peace be upon him), believed that Muhhammad (PHUH) was the last prophet, and accepted the rule of the umayyads. Shi'a muslims sometimes follow the sunnah (way) of Muhammad (PBUH) but didn't accept the rule of the Umayyads and believed only close friends or relatives of Muhammad (PBUH) should and could rule
