Survey of Islamic history

Write a focused response critically evaluating the following hypothetical blog post: “Although there were some minor fluctuations within Muslim societies of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa between the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258 and Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, it is clear that on the whole, Islamicate society steadily stagnated and declined throughout this period. The end of the ‘Abbasid caliphate sealed the fate of what had been strong Muslim political and religious unity, which then fragmented into a hundred different kingdoms all battling with each other and their neighbors for territory, all claiming different sources of religious and political legitimacy. For the most part, all of the ‘developments’ for more than five hundred years—whether cultural, religious, artistic, intellectual, legal, economic, military, or political, etc.—did not fundamentally slow the essential decline of Islamic society.”      

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