Chronology of Islāmic Empires from 1H (622CE)

C.E
Date
Hijra
Date
Spain & the Maghrib Turkey Arabia, Iraq & the Fertile Crescent Egypt and Syria Persian & Central Asia Afghanistan & Northern India
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1

Hijra

 

Death of the Prophet (saaw)

Earliest Muslim invasion in the Sind

Khulafah ur Rashideen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RISE OF UMMAYAD DYNASTY

Battle of Karbala

Dome of the Rock

 
700    

Great Mosque of Damascus

  100 Muslim Conquest of Spain  
     
   

UMMAYAD DYNASTY

RISE OF ABBASID DYNASTY

    Great Mosque of Cordoba Begun Baghdad, Seat of the Caliphate    
     

 

 

 

 

 

 
al Mansur
    Harun ar Rasheed
     
800  
  200 al Mamun
    Greek text translation into Arabic
     
900  

TULINID DYNASTY

  300 Medinah az-Zahra  

Re-emergence of Persian as a Literary Language

     

 

 

 

 

IKHSHIDID DYNASTY

 
    Turks of Central Asia converted to Islam

FATIMID DYNASTY

     

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
100  

GHAZNAVID DYNASTY

  400 Break up into separate states

Mahmud

   

ALMORAVID DYNASTY

SELJUKS OF RUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Seljuqs take Baghdad

SELJUK DYNASTY

       
   
1100   First Crusade
  500  
   

ALMOHAD DYNASTY

     

 

 

 

 

 

AYYUBID DYNASTY

    Al Quds recovered from Crusaders Salah ud Deen

GHURID DYNASTY

       

 

 

Qutb Minar

1200 600 Architecture of Konya  

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

    Mongol Invasion, Fall of Baghdad

MAMLUK DYNASTY

Mongol Invasion

   

KINGDOM OF GRANADA

Mongol Invasion    

IL KHILINID DYNASTY

     

 

 

 

OTTOMAN DYNASTY

End of the Crusades  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
1300 700

Break up of Il Khanid rule in Persia

TUGHLUQID DYNASTY

     

Tamerlane

    Alhambra Invasion by Tamerlane

Invasion by Tamerlane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 
Turks cross into Europe

TAMURID DYNASTY

TAMURID DYNASTY

    Tamerlane  

Samarkand

 
1400 800 Murad I
    Bayezit I
    Mehmed II
    Capture of Constantinople
     
1500 900

Fall of Granada

RISE OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE

SAFAVID DYNASTY

Vasco de Gama reaches India

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Selim I    

Shah Ismail I

MUGHUL DYNASTY

     

Babur

1600 1000 Sulayman the Magnificent

Shah Tahmasp

 
    Battle of Lepanto  

 

 

 

Akbar
      Jahangir
    Shah Jahan
    Arungzeb
    Shah Abbas I Badshahi Mosque
  1100 2nd siege of Vienna  

 

 

 

 

 

1700    
   
    Nadir Shah
    Civil War Invasion by  Nadir Shah
    Defeat by Russia   Battle of Plassey
  1200 Selim III Napolean's Invasion

QAJAR DYNASTY

 

 

 

 

1800     Muhamad Ali  
     

 

   
  1300 Suez canal opened

Russian influence consolidated in Central Asia

Mutiny against the British

1900   Anglo-Egyptian rule    

 

 

 

      
    World War One New Constitution
    Revolution, New Republic under Ataturk   Rida Shah
      Revolution under Nasser  

Independence and Partition

       
C.E
Date
Hijra
Date
Spain & the Maghrib Turkey Arabia, Iraq & the Fertile Crescent Egypt and Syria Persian & Central Asia Afghanistan & Northern India

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