A.  How did the Mongols impact the political, social,and economic order of the Muslim societies they conquered? What didthey change and what did they keep the same?
B.  How did Sufism develop from the early Abbasidperiod (800’s) up to the late medieval period (1400’s)? Under whatconditions, if any, did medieval Muslims consider Sufi ideasdangerous?
C.  What social and political forces shifted thepolitical center of the Islamic world from its location in 950 toits location in 1300?
D.  What impact did the Crusades have on medievalMuslim societies, and what impact did Islam have on the Crusaders?Was one side affected more greatly than the other?
