Similarities Between Medieval Europe And Islamic Caliphates

During the Postclassical Period, Medieval Europe and the Islamic Caliphates shared similarities and had differences. Although they both had religious and political oppositions, they differed in treatment of women in society. Both civilizations used architecture to spread their major religion; however, the Islamic Caliphates valued education while Medieval Europe reflected religion in their works. Both the Islamic Caliphates and Medieval Europe experienced a division in religious society due to objections of religious and political matters. Within Medieval Europe, in Western Christendom, the Great Western Schism occurred where King Philip IV quarreled with Pope Boniface because the pope refused to allow priests to pay taxes to the king. To win order against Boniface, Phillip established a meeting called the Estates General that increased royal power over nobility. Religious devotion and chivalry crumbled. In the Islamic Caliphates, the Umayyad Caliphate moved the Muslim capital from Mecca to Damascus and

Medieval Europe used a style of church architecture, known of Gothic, involving ribbed vaults, stained glass, windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires. Gothic cathedrals shot upward to heaven and were meant to inspire the worshipper with the magnificence of God by bringing sunshine. The richness attracted people to church. The Islamic Caliphates promoted Islam through the Dome of the Rock. It was compared to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and their domes were almost the same size. However, the Dome of the Rock was larger and how Muslims proclaimed that Islam was better than Christianity. Anyone who went in the Dome was moved, regardless of their religion. This similarity exits because by creating magnificent architecture like Gothic churches and the Dome of the Rock, Medieval Europe promoted Christianity and the Islamic Caliphates promoted