The Golden Age

ABBASID ADMINISTRATION

Bureaucracy

• Had Abbasid caliphs who were in charge of the army, taxation, finance, coinage, roads, and postal services.
• Had the Ulama's who were the scholars. who developed the society based on the Quran and Sharia.
• Had Qadis, who were basically the judges. And heard cases based on the Quran and Sharia.

Administration Cont.

• moved the capital to Baghdad and put the centralized court there.
• Caliphs were in charge of each province.

The Idea

• The idea of separating the land and giving a province to a leader was derived from the Persian Empire.

How it Differed from the Umayyads

• The Abbasid ...
• Cosmopolitan
• did not favor military aristocracy
• focused on government
• Did not offensively attack.

The Highest Point

• Harun al Rashid was the ruler of the highest point.
• The empire had become extremely wealthy
• Baghdad became the center of the economy
• Was extremely liberal.

The Decline

• Civil war tore the empire apart.
• Caliphs began to abuse their power and form separate kingdoms.
• Uprisings and peasantry rebellions.
• Outsides forces like the Mongols attacked the empire
• Conquered by the Saljuq Turks