Islam time line.Islam is one of the world's fastest-growing religions. Trade and military conquest helped spread the Islamic faith and culture worldwide, With more than 1.2 billion followers, Muslims live in every country in the world today. Us the time line of Islamic history to answer the questions. Write your answers on the lines provided. TIME LINE 610 A.D. Muslims believe that Muhammad, merchant from Makkah (Mecca begins receiving messages from Allah (God in Arabic). The divine visions will form the basis of the Koran, Islam's holy book. Muhammad leads a religious movement that worships Allah and no other deity (god). 622-633 Muhammad and his followers flee to Yathrib (later to be known as Medina) to escape religious persecution  The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.Please see the relevant discussion on the . . Muslims commence their push through Arabia, spreading Islam. Muhammad dies in 632. 638-661 Muslim armies begin conquering areas of the old Byzantine and Persian empires. In 661, civil war erupts among Muslims after the assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of All, Muhammad's son-in-law and a religious leader. 750 The Umayyad dynasty Umayyad dynasty (661–750) First great Muslim dynasty. It was founded by Mu'awiyah I, who triumphed over the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, 'Ali, to become the fifth caliph. He moved the capital from Medina to Damascus and used the Syrian army to extend the Arab empire. fails. The next ruling dynasty, the Abbasids, establishes Baghdad as the empire' capital. 1095-1099 Pope Urban Pope Urban may refer to one of several people:
1187-1190 Saladin, sultan of Egypt Sultan of Egypt was the status held by the rulers of Egypt after the establishment of the Ayyubid Dynasty of Saladin in 1174 until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. Though the extent of the Egyptian Sultanate ebbed and flowed, it generally included Sham and Hejaz, with the and Syria routs the Christian army at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin. The victory leads to Muslim force regaining control of Jerusalem. 1300-1918 Nomadic See nomadic computing. Turkish tribes create the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire (ŏt`əmən), vast state founded in the late 13th cent. by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918. . In 1453, the Ottomans conquer the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, renaming it Istanbul. The empire eventually falls into decline and is defeated in World War I. 1947-1948 The United Nations votes to divide Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. In 1948, the state of Israel is created. Arab forces, chiefly from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan, attack the new nation and are defeated. 1979 Islamic radicals overthrow the Shah of Iran. They establish the Islamic Republic An Islamic republic, in its modern context, has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle of Iran, the first attempt at an Islamic state in modern history. QUESTIONS 1. What is the name of Islam's holy book? 2. Where did Muhammad and his followers flee escaping persecution? 3. Whose death in 661 set off a civil war among Muslims? 4. Which Islamic dynasty came to power after the fall of the Umayyads in 750? 5. Which Christian leader called for a holy war against Muslims in 1095? 6. Muslims, Jews, and Christians revere Revere, city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay; settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914. which Middle Eastern city? 7. What new name did the Ottomans give to Constantinople after conquering the city in 1453? 8. Which organization divided Palestine into two state in 1947? 9. Arab forces from which nations attacked Israel in 1948? 10. When was the first Islamic state in modern history established? ANSWERS 1. the Koran 2. Yathrib (later renamed as Medina) 3. Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law 4. Abbasids 5. Pope Urban II 6. Jerusalem 7. Istanbul 8. The United Nations 9. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan 10. 1979 |
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