Middle Ages Almanac | The Islamic World

• Preparing the way for Islam (300s–632)
• Words to Know: The Islamic World
• Manichaeism
• The Islamic faith
• Islamic empires
• The Sufis
• Moorish Spain
• The Thousand and One Nights
• Islamic civilization
• Arabic and Farsi
• The splintering of the Islamic world (c. 875–1258)
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In ancient times, the Middle East produced some of the most outstanding civilizations in the world. First there was Egypt, along with the...