Timeline of the history of Islam

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{{Timeline of Muslim history}}

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This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started,{{cite book |last=Watt |first=William Montgomery |author-link=W. Montgomery Watt |title=Islam and the Integration of Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-17587-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC&pg=PA5 5] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114062742/https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC |archive-date=2017-01-14 }} though not by Muslims.{{cite book |last=Esposito |first=John |title= Islam: The Straight Path (3rd ed.) |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511234-4 |pages=9, 12}}Esposito (2002b), pp. 4–5.{{cite book |last=Peters |first=F.E. |title=Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians |year=2003 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-11553-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/islamguideforjew00fepe/page/9 9] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/islamguideforjew00fepe/page/9 }}

Broad periods (Gregorian and Islamic dates)

;Muhammad and the Rashidun Caliphs

;Timeline of early Islamic history, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate and its fragmentation, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Delhi Sultanate

;Regional empires and dynasties (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire)

;Final period of colonialism and time of postcolonial nation-states

Islamic centuries to Gregorian

{{Main|Islamic calendar}}

; Islamic centuries to corresponding Gregorian years{{cite web|url=http://www.urducalendar.com/converter.php|title=URDU CALENDAR – ISLAMIC – GREGORIAN|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225115503/http://www.urducalendar.com/converter.php|archive-date=2012-12-25}}

  • 1st century AH (622 – 719 CE)
  • 2nd century AH (719 – 816)
  • 3rd century AH (816 – 913)
  • 4th century AH (913 – 1009)
  • 5th century AH (1009 – 1106)
  • 6th century AH (1106 – 1203)
  • 7th century AH (1203 – 1299)
  • 8th century AH (1299 – 1397)
  • 9th century AH (1397 – 1495)
  • 10th century AH (1495 – 1591)
  • 11th century AH (1591 – 1688)
  • 12th century AH (1688 – 1785)
  • 13th century AH (1785 – 1883)
  • 14th century AH (1883 – 1980)
  • 15th century AH (1980 – 2077)

See also

References

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