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World History

applegrove

(123,888 posts) Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:34 AM Jan 2016

I wrote about how the middle east is not a merit based society. I am reading Pre-Industrial [View all]

Societies by Patricia Crone. She talks about how "the social order might in principle be based on merit ..... as it was in China and to some extent in the medieval Islamic world, and this allowed for a good measure of social mobility..." page 121.

I know nothing about medieval Islamic history. Does anyone know how that society worked? How role did Islam play?

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I wrote about how the middle east is not a merit based society. I am reading Pre-Industrial [View all] applegrove Jan 2016 OP

As a history teacher I try to cover this each year with my kids Bucky Jan 2016 #1

i'll look for it. applegrove Jan 2016 #2