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
- 6th century CE (23 BH – 13 BH)
;Timeline of early Islamic history, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate and its fragmentation, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Delhi Sultanate
- 7th century CE (23 BH – 81 AH)
- 8th century CE (81 AH – 184 AH)
- 9th century CE (184 AH – 288 AH)
- 10th century CE (288 AH – 391 AH)
- 11th century CE (391 AH – 494 AH)
- 12th century CE (494 AH – 597 AH)
- 13th century CE (597 AH – 700 AH)
- 14th century CE (700 AH – 803 AH)
;Regional empires and dynasties (Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire)
- 15th century CE (803 AH – 906 AH)
- 16th century CE (906 AH – 1009 AH)
- 17th century CE (1009 AH – 1112 AH)
- 18th century CE (1112 AH – 1215 AH)
- 19th century CE (1215 AH – 1318 AH)
;Final period of colonialism and time of postcolonial nation-states
- 20th century CE (1318 AH – 1421 AH)
- 21st century CE (1421 AH – present)
Islamic centuries to Gregorian
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; 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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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329142418/http://www.happy-books.co.uk/muhammad-ibn-abdullah-lineage-and-family-tree/timeline-of-islamic-caliphate-including-all-muslim-rulers-and-khilafah-from-muhammad-to-khulafaa-rashidah-and-banu-umayyah-abbas-and-ottoman-empire.php Graphical Timeline of Islamic Rulers/Caliphate]
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