Approximate date
In a few decades the Hittite empire, Ugarit and Mycenaean Greece fall to drought, earthquakes and raiding Sea Peoples. Iron soon replaces bronze.
How it touches Islam 'These days We alternate among the people' (3:140): and iron, which the Quran says was sent down with great might (57:25), takes bronze's place.
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.
