help needed in islam history

1. Answer the following questions in one to two pages (single spaced lines), using your notes from class, assigned readings, and reference to visual evidence from the slides for evidence. Individual answers will vary—what counts is that you draw upon evidence from across the breadth of the course, both from lecture and from readings, backing up your arguments accordingly.

What is Islam? How did the Islam of the ninth century differ from the Islam of the twelfth century? Was there one single Islam in the Middle Ages, or many ‘Islams’?

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2. Choose one of the following images and answer the following questions about it, drawing upon your lecture notes and, where applicable, assigned readings. You may also look up the art object in question in the relevant online catalog using the provided data and incorporate the information found there into your answer.

What is this object? What makes this object ‘Islamic,’ and what are the limitations or problems with using ‘Islamic’ to describe it? Why might ‘Islamic’ be appropriate?

a. Freer and Sackler F1941.10 b. Ashmolean HCR6573

c. Victoria & Albert C.863-1921 d. Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000.279.1