He reconstructs the eschatological memory as the seventh-century rise of Islam amid Persia-Byzantium exhaustion, Jerusalem conflict, Jewish exile, Muhammad, Medina, and a believers' alliance.
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Caliphate
He reconstructs the eschatological memory as the seventh-century rise of Islam amid Persia-Byzantium exhaustion, Jerusalem conflict, Jewish exile, Muhammad, Medina, and a believers' alliance.
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"So let me try to explain this slowly because it's actually very complicated, okay? All right. We first have to ask, where does this..."
"If you control Jerusalem, you're able to control Egypt. And Egypt historically has been the main agricultural nation in the Middle East. And at..."
"...fanatics. Okay. And so they were able then to establish the Caliphate. All right. Which was this grand alliance between Christians, Jews and Muslims...."
"...two powers are the Byzantine Empire as well as the Abbasid Caliphate, okay?"
"...the same time, their intimate contacts with the Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only barbaric..."
"...will fight amongst themselves, and they will establish different empires called caliphates, and they will break up as well, okay? And this will give..."
"...Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Caliphate. Okay? Historical city. Over here is Damascus. One of the oldest cities..."
"...the Romans were extremely brutal. In the 7th century, the Islamic Caliphate restored the Jews to Jerusalem. But they were still not masters of..."
"...start trading with the rest of the world, primarily the Abbasid Caliphate, which we discussed last week. And as such, Europe was able to..."
"...is being controlled by the Fatimids, okay, which is an Islamic caliphate. And this is embarrassing, right? Because if you are the true representative..."
"...happen is as the Byzantine Empire becomes weaker and the Abbasid Caliphate becomes weaker, there's now chaos. And as such, bandits roam the land...."
"...happening because of maritime trade. Maritime trade initiated by the Abbasid Caliphate. Okay? Remember in our last class, we learned about the Islamic Golden..."
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