Abdullah Bey > Recent Status Updates

-the Ghurids were 'loyal followers of the Shafi'i school', Gjiyat ad-Din Muhammad built a monument in Chist, the birth town of the founder of the Chishti tariqah Abu Ishaq Shami, and even though the tariqah died out because of succession infighting, the mystic Mu'in al-Din Chishti revived it in India and made it one of the most influential turuq in the subcontinent

-Mahmud of Ghazna, 2nd ruler of the Ghaznavid Sultanate was a militant orthodox sunni who tried to supress the Ismaili Shi'as, he constantly waged warfare to keep his Turkic slave soldiers loyal & frequently sent gifts to the Abbasid Caliph, he gained the nickname 'Hammer of the Disbelievers' and opened the real gate to islamic expansion in India, he attracted a lot of voluntary mujahideen due to his constant jihad

-Turkic mercenaries were not only hired to fight battles, but also to keep local populations in check by the Abbasids, the Samanids did the same, they were generally in control in Iraq and Khorasan and with the borders of 'infidel Hindustan'

-the 10th Century marked the start of Turkic independent expansion and rule in the Islamic world

-the Abbasid Caliphate kept trading very just, they also had a highly advanced capital system which made the investments of merchants less risky until the Caliphate started to implode

-the sea-routes of Basra went as far as China and Korea, the Muslims even set up trading posts in the Indonesian islands & East Africa

-the Europeans first did economical warfare against the Orient before colonizing it

-the Almohads were against jewelry which were too eye-catching due to their strong ascetic beliefs, same went for the Marinids and the Almohads

-Berbers had the biggest impact on Moroccan culture, Berber women were granted big pieces of gold for dowry so they could compensate them in case of divorce to look after themselves, while the gold and silver of the Arabs was more refined and elegant

omg finally halfway through, might start writing statuses on this book