Please help with my dbq. I will mark Directions: Question 1 is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.

In your response you should do the following.
Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning.
Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least six documents.
Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt.
For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument.
Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

Step 1- Break down the prompt & know what it is asking you to do.

Step 2- Read/scan each doc. & write down a few words as to how that doc. relates to the prompt.

Step 3- Try grouping your docs & see if you can get 2-3 groups. This should end up helping you form your thesis/3 body paragraphs.

Step 4- Have a rough outline/plan before beginning to write the DBQ.

Evaluate the extent to which interactions between Muslim and non-Muslim communities affected attitudes toward Islam or Islamic culture in the period circa 1200-1750.

Document 1

Source: Anonymous Christian priest in Muslim-controlled Spain, address to the many Christians who were converting to Islam, written in Arabic, circa 1200.

You know very well that the Qur’an itself calls Jesus “the Spirit of God and His Word” and states that He was “eminent in this world and the next one, and one of those brought close to God.” [Qur’an, Chapter 3, verse 45]. Your Holy Qur’an also states that Jesus is “He who gives life to the dead” and doesn’t this suffice as evidence that He is God?

So your [Muslim] beliefs are generally good. And there is much goodness and justice in your society and at the root of your religion. So if you were just to believe in the Messiah and affirm that He is God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, then your belief would be perfected.

The religion of the cross [Christianity] has spread throughout the world without the sword and without coercion. But your religion triumphed by the sword. And the Arabs entered our cities and uprooted our abodes. The Messiah son of Mary came humbly and in meekness and did not fight anyone!

Document 2

Source: Udadhara, Hindu town administrator employed by the Muslim sultan of Delhi, Sanskrit inscription on a public water well, northern India, 1276.

In this kingdom of the Delhi sultan abounding in kind rule, the entire region is filled with inner peace and his great city of Delhi flourishes.

When the sultan went forth on military expeditions, many [Hindu] kingdoms surrendered to his might.

Under the rule of the sultan, the [Hindu] god Vishnu and the goddess Lakshmi abandon all worries and sleep in peace on an ocean of milk.