As a monotheistic religion, Islam defines itself as the last of the three great Abrahamic faith traditions. The history of Christian-Muslim relations begins with the biography of the prophet Muhammad in the sixth and seventh centuries C.E. Muhammad met Christians and Jews on various occasions. Muhammad was the founder of Islam and is considered a prophet by Muslims.
The Mediterranean had played a role of a functional mediator between two seemingly drastically different cultures: Christian and Islamic. The Christians in Medieval Europe were religiously devoted people who neglected the advancement of technology or civilization. Muslims, in contrast, possessed a thriving culture that was far more advanced than that of the Christians. The two cultures confronted each other over the Mediterranean, and the relationship between the two was basically hostile, since the two
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Question two: Describe the origins and development of the sociopolitical system of medieval Europe. In other words, what were roots of feudalism and manorialism? Why did they develop the way they did? Were Greek and Roman traditions or German culture more important in their formation?
feudalism refers to the medievel european political system, composed of legal and military obligations. there were three groups of, i gus u can people. lords, vassals, and fiefs. Manorialism or Seigneurialism was the organizing principle of rural economy and society widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe. Manorialism was characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord, supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. These obligations could be payable in: labor produce or, on rare occasions,