the spread of Islam

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  • Profit of Muhammad was born
    570

    Profit of Muhammad was born

    Muhammad was born in Mecca and he was orphaned at a young age. He worked as a merchant to stay afloat.
  • Muhammad received first revelation
    610

    Muhammad received first revelation

    According to the Islamic narrative, Muhammad sought solitude after repeatedly experiencing transcendental dreams in which he was told of his upcoming responsibility as a messenger of God. he was 40 at the time of this first dream.
  • Muhammad as the leader in Medina
    622

    Muhammad as the leader in Medina

    Muhammad became the leader in Medina in 622 when he was about 50 years old. he was leader up until his death, and he was leading the islamic faith during this time. It was 632 when he died
  • Expansion under Mahummad
    622

    Expansion under Mahummad

    Muhammad took leadership of Mecca in 622 and was leader the whole of the decade.The early state began in Medina and gradually gained Mecca, Hunayn, Tabuk, and a large majority of the populated regions of the Arabian Peninsula. the expansion ended when he died
  • Islam’s Quran was compiled
    632

    Islam’s Quran was compiled

    the book of Quran is all of Muhammad's revelations. it is the main belief of Islam and was only compiled after his death.
  • Muhammad dies
    632

    Muhammad dies

    Muhammad died in 632 at the age of 61. historians don't really know how he died, but they can argue it was either poisoning or an illness.
  • Conquest of Arabia
    632

    Conquest of Arabia

    The Conquest of Arabia in 632 refers to the merge of the Arabian Peninsula under the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad and the establishment of Islam as the dominant religion. the conquest lasted about a year into 633
  • spread to Egypt
    633

    spread to Egypt

    Islam spread through the muslim conquest, in which they seized control of Egypt from the christian dominated state. Another thing that helped Islam spread was trade and commerce though the rivers in Egypt. The main spread in Egypt lasted until 650.
  • Expansion during the rashidun caliphate
    633

    Expansion during the rashidun caliphate

    The Rashidun Caliphate expanded steadily. Within the span of 24 years, a vast territory was conquered. Comprising of Mesopotamia, the Levant, parts of Anatolia, and most of the Sasanian Empire. it lasted until 661.
  • Spread to Syria
    636

    Spread to Syria

    As Arab armies took control of the Regina after the battle of Yarmouk in 636, Syria changed from Roman to Islamic rule. in 640 Syria became part of the muslim states and dynasties in the region. the spread went along and lasted around till 651.
  • Spread of Persia
    640

    Spread of Persia

    The Arab invasion of Persia, or otherwise known as Iran, resulted in the assimilation of people who fallowed to Muslim culture.
  • spread in Africa
    651

    spread in Africa

    starting in 654, or in the eighth and ninth centuries, Arab traders and travelers, then African clerics, began to spread the religion along the eastern coast of Africa and to the western and central Sudan.
  • Umayyad dynasty
    660

    Umayyad dynasty

    Umayyad dynasty lasted from 661-750. it was the first great Muslim dynasty. It was founded by Muʿāwiyah I, who triumphed over the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, ʿAlī, to become the fifth caliph. He moved the capital from Medina to Damascus and used the Syrian army to extend the Arab empire.
  • Expansion during the umayyad caliphate
    661

    Expansion during the umayyad caliphate

    from the year 661, The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests. places they conquered included Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania. the conquests lasted until 750.
  • spread to Europe
    711

    spread to Europe

    Islam expanded into the Caucasus through the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century and entered Southern Europe after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th–10th centuries; Muslim political entities existed firmly in what is today Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages.
  • spread to India
    712

    spread to India

    Islam was first introduced in India through the Arab invasion of Sind in CE 712 and through subsequent invasions of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The religion firmly established itself as a force through the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth century.
  • Abbasid dynasty
    750

    Abbasid dynasty

    The Abbasid dynasty lasted from 750 to 1258. the people were an Arab-Muslim dynasty with a distinctly Asian flavor that ruled a large Muslim empire that extended from Spain to Central Asia for over five centuries.
  • Cordoba dynasty
    756

    Cordoba dynasty

    Its territory comprised most of the Iberian Peninsula, otherwise known to Muslims as al-Andalus, the Balearic Islands, and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba (at the time Qurṭubah). From 756 it was ruled as an emirate until Abd al-Rahman III adopted the title of caliph in 929. the dynasty lasted until 1031.