Islamic Timeline By hollicha@bfschools.org 570 Muhammad is born 610 muhammad receives revelations quran 622 muhammad escapes persecution 630 Muhammed gains control Mecca 632 muhammad dies 634 Umar 2nd Caliph 644 utaman becomes third caliph 656 ali bin talib becomes fourth caliph 661 move capital to damacus 680 hussein killed 692 dome of the rock completed 711 muslims control Iberian Peninsula 732 Islamic Army is defeated 750 Baghdad new capital city 780 father of algebra born 972 Azhar University is founded 1025 Canon of Medicine completed 1048 Poet/scientist Khayyam born 1099 Cristian army recaptures Jerusalem 1187 Saladin retakes Jerulslem 1258 Mongol army destroys Baghdad