# Islam · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/islam/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 045 Islam al-Islam; submission to God 610 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Global; largest in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - c.570 CE Birth of Muhammad. - 610 CE The first revelation on Mount Hira. - 622 CE The Hijra, migration to Medina. The Islamic calendar counts from this year, not from the Prophet's birth or the first revelation — the founding of the community is the event that matters. - 630 CE Mecca taken; the Kaaba cleared of idols. - 632 CE Muhammad dies without naming an undisputed successor. The succession dispute produces the Sunni-Shia division. - 632–661 CE The Rashidun caliphs; conquest of Persia, Syria, Egypt. - 680 CE Karbala. Husayn, the Prophet's grandson, is killed with his companions. The defining event of Shia identity. - 661–750 CE Umayyad caliphate; expansion to Spain and the Indus. - 750–1258 CE Abbasid caliphate; Baghdad's House of Wisdom; the Islamic Golden Age in mathematics, medicine, optics, astronomy and philosophy. - 1258 CE Mongols sack Baghdad. - 1299–1922 CE Ottoman empire; 1453, the fall of Constantinople. - 1501–1736 CE Safavid Persia makes Twelver Shiism the state religion of Iran. - 1744 CE The alliance of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad ibn Saud in Najd. - 1924 CE Atatürk abolishes the caliphate. - 1928, 1979 CE Muslim Brotherhood founded; the Iranian Revolution establishes clerical rule. - 2001–present The rise of transnational jihadist violence, condemned by the great majority of Muslim scholars and disproportionately lethal to Muslims themselves. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door