Midterm Essay Prompt: For your second primary source essay, you were asked to address the theoretical arguments employed by the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs\/imams (and their defenders) to legitimize their positions of authority. For your midterm exam, you will be asked to address the practical policies the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphs\/imams (and their defenders) employed to legitimize their positions of authority. What practical policies did the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphs\/imams (and their defenders) employ to legitimize their positions of authority? Why did the caliphs\/imams employ these kinds of policies? How and why were they effective? In your midterm exam essay you will need to situate your arguments in their proper chronological and historical context\u2014that is, in addition to what policies were implemented, you will need to address who implemented them, when, where, and why. Your midterm exam essay must address the question explicitly and coherently. Since the question can be answered with a variety of approaches, the approach you choose will be judged on the clarity, content, and effectiveness of your argument. An excellent midterm exam essay (that is, an A essay) will account for your positions with specific evidence from your readings (Lindsay, Cook, al-Tabari,) and our class discussions\/lectures. Your midterm exam essay should consist of complete sentences and follow correct rules of grammar, spelling, and usage. It should reflect the very best writing of which you are capable. It should be no more than 3-5, double-spaced, typed pages (about 900-1500 words), and should include your name and page number on each page.
\nCitation Format: When citing the readings, give the author and page number\u2014e.g. (Lindsay, 71)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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