Approximate date
Settlers from Canaan and Syria build a thriving town at Avaris in the Nile Delta. Their descendants, the Hyksos, later rule northern Egypt.
How it touches Islam In Yusuf's story the Quran calls Egypt's ruler 'the king' (12:50), never Pharaoh; some historians place Yusuf in this age.
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
