Islamic Timeline By Erin Ware 570 Muhammad born in Mecca 610 Religion begins Muhammad revelations 622 Muhammad moves, escapes persecution 630 Muhammad returns, gains control 632 Muhammad dies, Abu Bakr leader 634 Umar becomes second caliph 644 Uthman becomes third caliph 656 Ali bin Talib becomes fourth caliph 661 Umayyad caliphate takes control 680 Hussein killed at Karbala 692 rock completed in Jerusalem 711 muslims enter Spain, Morocco 732 army defeated be Charles Martel 750 The Abbasid caliphate takes control 780 Mathematician, Scientist al-Khwarizmi born 972 Al-Azhar university in Cairo 1025 Ibn sina completes his encyclopedia 1048 poet Omar Khayyam is born 1099 Christian army recapture Jerusalem 1187 Saladin retakes city Jerusalem 1258 Mongol army kills caliph