By region
Islamic history in the wider Muslim world
Researched 360° places of Islamic history across the wider Muslim world — each with its date, location, and Sunni-sourced background.
20 places
Rashidun
The First Muslim Fleet off Cyprus
28 AH / 649 CE
East coast of Cyprus, off Byzantine Constantia (near modern Famagusta)
Umayyad
The Battle of Balat al-Shuhada'
Ramadan 114 AH / October 732 CE
Between Poitiers and Tours, central Gaul (modern France)
Abbasid
The Battle of Talas
Dhul Hijja 133 AH / July 751 CE
Upper Talas river valley, on the western marches of Transoxiana (modern Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border)
Abbasid
Ibn Fadlan among the Volga Bulgars
310 AH / 922 CE
The land of the Volga Bulgars, on the middle Volga
Norman Sicily
The Arab-Norman Art of Palermo
524-590 AH / c. 1130-1194 CE
Palermo, in Sicily
Norman Sicily
Al-Idrisi's Map of the World
549 AH / 1154 CE
Palermo, in Sicily
Maldive Sultanate
The Sultanate of the Maldives
744 AH / c. 1343-1344 CE
The Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean
Ottoman
The First Siege of Vienna
936 AH / 1529 CE
Vienna, on the Danube in Central Europe
Kazan Khanate
The Fall of Kazan
959 AH / 1552 CE
Kazan, on the middle Volga (modern Tatarstan)
Ottoman
The Abandoned Camp before Vienna
1094 AH / 1683 CE
Ottoman siege lines outside Vienna, below the Kahlenberg
Nations & States
Omar ibn Said in the Carolinas
1240s AH / c. 1820s CE
The Carolinas, in the American South
Nations & States
The Male Revolt of Bahia
1250 AH / 1835 CE
Salvador, in Bahia, on the coast of Brazil
Nations & States
The Afghan Cameleers of the Outback
c. 1280s-1310s AH / 1860s-1890s CE
Marree, in the South Australian outback
Nations & States
The Shah Jahan Mosque of Woking
1306 AH / 1889 CE
Woking, in Surrey, in southern England
Nations & States
Umar al-Mukhtar and the Senussi Resistance
1344 AH / c. 1925 CE
The Jabal Akhdar, Cyrenaica (eastern Libya)
Nations & States
The Mother Mosque of America
1353 AH / 1934 CE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the American Midwest
Nations & States
Malcolm X and Islam in America
1384 AH / 1964 CE
Harlem, New York City
Nations & States
The Nation of Islam in America
1385 AH / c. 1965 CE
An American city (the Nation of Islam in the urban north), representative
Nations & States
The Turn to Sunni Islam in America
1396 AH / c. 1976 CE
Chicago, United States
Contemporary
The Old Bridge of Mostar Rebuilt
1425 AH / 2004 CE
Mostar, the Stari Most over the Neretva, Bosnia