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Nations & States: places of Islamic history
Every researched 360° place from the Nations & States era of Islamic history — each with its date, location, and Sunni-sourced background.
51 places
Nations & States
The Betrayal at Plassey
1170 AH / 1757 CE
Plassey (Palashi), on the Bhagirathi river, in Bengal
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Tipu Sultan's Srirangapatna
c. 1205 AH / 1790 CE
Srirangapatna, the island fortress of Mysore, southern India
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The Auwal Mosque of the Cape
1208 AH / 1794 CE
Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, at the foot of Table Mountain
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Omar ibn Said in the Carolinas
1240s AH / c. 1820s CE
The Carolinas, in the American South
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Muhammad Ali's Egypt: the Citadel Mosque
1246 AH / c. 1830 CE
The Citadel of Cairo
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The Male Revolt of Bahia
1250 AH / 1835 CE
Salvador, in Bahia, on the coast of Brazil
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Abd al-Qadir's Smala on the High Plains
1256 AH / c. 1840 CE
The high plains of western Algeria
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Imam Shamil's Mountain Imamate
1267 AH / c. 1850 CE
The highlands of Dagestan, North Caucasus
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The Fall of Delhi and the End of the Mughals
1274-1275 AH / 1857-1858 CE
The Red Fort (Lal Qila), Delhi, on the Yamuna
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The Expulsion of the Circassians
1281 AH / 1864 CE
The Black Sea coast of the north-western Caucasus
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The Founding of Dar al-Ulum Deoband
1283 AH / 1866 CE
Deoband, northern India
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The Suez Canal Opens
1286 AH / 1869 CE
Port Said, mouth of the Suez Canal
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Aligarh: the Modernist Response
1292 AH / 1875 CE
Aligarh, northern India
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The Afghan Cameleers of the Outback
c. 1280s-1310s AH / 1860s-1890s CE
Marree, in the South Australian outback
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The Bombardment of Alexandria
1299 AH / 1882 CE
The seafront of Alexandria, Egypt
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The Shah Jahan Mosque of Woking
1306 AH / 1889 CE
Woking, in Surrey, in southern England
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The Mahdist State at Omdurman
1307 AH / c. 1890 CE
Omdurman, at the Nile confluence, Sudan
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The Iranian Constitutional Revolution
1324 AH / c. 1906 CE
Tehran, beneath the Alborz
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The Founding of the Muslim League
1324 AH / 1906 CE
Dhaka, on the Buriganga (Bengal)
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The Young Turk Revolution
1326 AH / 1908 CE
Istanbul, by the Bosphorus
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The Defence of the Dardanelles
1333 AH / 1915 CE
The Gallipoli peninsula and the Dardanelles
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Lines on the Map: Sykes-Picot and Balfour
1334-1336 AH / 1916-1917 CE
The Levant (Bilad al-Sham), partitioned from afar
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The Arab Revolt in the Hejaz
1335 AH / c. 1917 CE
The Hejaz desert, western Arabia
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The Khilafat Movement
c. 1338 AH / 1920 CE
A maidan in northern India
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The Occupation of Istanbul
1338 AH / c. 1920 CE
Istanbul and the Bosphorus, under occupation
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Ankara, Capital of the Resistance
1339 AH / c. 1921 CE
Ankara, central Anatolia
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The Abolition of the Caliphate
1342 AH / 1924 CE
Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul
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The Great Syrian Revolt
1344 AH / 1925 CE
The old city of Damascus
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Umar al-Mukhtar and the Senussi Resistance
1344 AH / c. 1925 CE
The Jabal Akhdar, Cyrenaica (eastern Libya)
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The Beginnings of the Tablighi Jamaat
1345 AH / c. 1926 CE
The Mewat region, south of Delhi
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The Founding of the Muslim Brotherhood
1346 AH / 1928 CE
Ismailia, on the Suez Canal
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The Hajj under the New Custodianship
c. 1349 AH / 1930 CE
The Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
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The Founding of Saudi Arabia
1351 AH / 1932 CE
Riyadh, Najd
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The Mother Mosque of America
1353 AH / 1934 CE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the American Midwest
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Reza Shah's Secular Reforms
c. 1355 AH / 1936 CE
Tehran, beneath the Alborz
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The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence
1364 AH / 1945 CE
Jakarta, Java
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Partition and the Birth of Pakistan
1366 AH / 1947 CE
The Punjab, on the new India-Pakistan border
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The Nakba
1367 AH / 1948 CE
A depopulated village in Palestine
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The Nationalisation of Iranian Oil
1370-1372 AH / 1951-1953 CE
The Abadan refinery, southwest Iran
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Nasser, Suez and Arab Nationalism
1375 AH / 1956 CE
A public square in Cairo
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The Battle of Algiers
1377 AH / c. 1957 CE
The Casbah of Algiers
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The Gulf Before Oil
1380 AH / c. 1960 CE
A pearling dhow town on the Gulf coast (the Trucial Coast), representative
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The Shia Seminary World of Qom
c. 1383 AH / 1963 CE
Qom, Iran
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Malcolm X and Islam in America
1384 AH / 1964 CE
Harlem, New York City
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The Nation of Islam in America
1385 AH / c. 1965 CE
An American city (the Nation of Islam in the urban north), representative
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Sayyid Qutb in Prison
1386 AH / 1966 CE
A prison in Cairo
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Jerusalem and the Six-Day War
1387 AH / 1967 CE
The Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem
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The Burning of al-Aqsa
1389 AH / 1969 CE
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
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The Birth of Bangladesh
1391 AH / 1971 CE
A railway halt in the Bengal delta, East Pakistan (Bangladesh)
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The Crossing of the Suez Canal
1393 AH / 1973 CE
The Suez Canal, Egypt
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The Turn to Sunni Islam in America
1396 AH / c. 1976 CE
Chicago, United States