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The spread of Islam

By rebecca stoljar
  • Jan 1, 632

    Mohammed's death

    This was when Mohammed diead at approximatley age 60 and it marked the beginning of the rightly guided caliphs
  • Period: Jan 1, 632 to Jan 1, 661

    The righlty guided Caliphs

    the first four Caliphs were known as the righlty guided Caliphs who were the head of Islam. three of them were murdered.
  • Jan 1, 661

    damascus in Syria becomes the capital of the Islamic empire

  • Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750

    The Caliphate of the Umayyads

    The Umayyads made Islam even bigger.
  • Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1055

    The Caliphade of the Abbasids

    after the civil war, the Abbasid family came to power
  • Jan 1, 763

    Baghdad was founded as the New capital by Al-Mansur.

  • Period: Jan 1, 1055 to Jan 1, 1258

    the Caliphate of the seldjuks

    a wave of the Turkish wandering the tribes changed the Islamic empire
  • Jan 1, 1091

    the seldjuks made Baghdad their capital city

  • Jan 1, 1258

    Baghdad was destroyed by Mongols

  • Period: Sep 1, 1258 to Sep 1, 1517

    the Mamluks

  • Arabic becomes the official language of the government