Ibrahim and his family (c. 2000 to 1700 BCE)
Chapter 3 of 10
Ibrahim and his family
c. 2000 to 1700 BCE
One family: Ibrahim, Lut, Ismail, Ishaq, Yaqub and Yusuf. From Iraq to Palestine, Makkah and Egypt.
15 moments in this chapter
Every moment in the timeline
Borders come from the open historical-basemaps project (GPL-3.0) 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, 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.
1. The beginningAdam to Nuh · dates unknown
2. Early nationsc. 3500 to 1600 BCE
3. Ibrahim and his familyc. 2000 to 1700 BCE
4. Musa and the Children of Israelc. 1350 to 540 BCE
- Shuayb and the traders
- Musa in the river
- Musa flees to Madyan
- The fire at Tuwa
- Musa before Pharaoh
- The sea parts
- The Tawrat and the calf
- The cow
- Qarun
- Musa and al-Khidr
- Forty years in the desert
- Dawud and Jalut
- King Dawud
- Sulayman's kingdom
- The Queen of Sheba
- Ilyas against Baal
- Yunus and the whale
- Nineveh falls
- Exile to Babylon
- A hundred years asleep
5. Empires and Isa539 BCE to 600 CE
- Cyrus frees the captives
- Dhul-Qarnayn's wall
- Buddha and Confucius
- Alexander conquers Persia
- Rome becomes an empire
- Maryam in the temple
- Yahya is born
- The birth of Isa
- The miracles of Isa
- The table from heaven
- Isa raised up
- The temple destroyed
- Sasanian Persia
- The People of the Cave
- Constantinople
- Christian Abyssinia
- Western Rome falls
- The People of the Ditch
- Hagia Sophia
- The dam of Saba breaks
- The Year of the Elephant
6. The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ570 to 632 CE
- Birth of the Prophet ﷺ
- Marriage to Khadijah
- The Black Stone
- The first revelation
- The call from Safa
- Rome is defeated
- Refuge in Abyssinia
- Hamzah and Umar
- The boycott
- The Tang dynasty
- The Year of Sorrow
- The Night Journey
- The pledges of Aqabah
- The Hijrah
- A new community
- The qiblah changes
- The Battle of Badr
- The Battle of Uhud
- The Trench
- Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
- Letters to the kings
- Khaybar
- Rome wins again
- The Battle of Mu'tah
- The return to Makkah
- The Battle of Hunayn
- The march to Tabuk
- The Year of Delegations
- The Farewell Hajj
- The Prophet ﷺ passes away
7. The first caliphates632 to 750 CE
- Abu Bakr, first caliph
- The Quran is collected
- Umar ibn al-Khattab
- The Battle of Yarmuk
- The Battle of Qadisiyyah
- Umar enters Jerusalem
- Egypt and Fustat
- The end of Sasanian Persia
- Uthman's Quran
- Ali and the civil war
- The Umayyads
- The Year of Unity
- Kairouan and the Atlantic
- First siege of Constantinople
- Karbala
- The Dome of the Rock
- Tariq crosses to Spain
- Islam reaches the Indus
- Bukhara and Samarkand
- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
- The Battle of Tours
- The Abbasid revolution
8. Baghdad and the golden age751 to 1258 CE
- Paper from China
- Cordoba
- Baghdad is founded
- The four imams
- Harun al-Rashid
- Charlemagne and Harun
- The road of Zubaydah
- The House of Wisdom
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- The Fatimids
- Al-Tabari
- The Caliphate of Cordoba
- Al-Azhar
- Mahmud of Ghazna
- Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham
- The Seljuk Turks
- The Nizamiyya colleges
- Manzikert
- The Crusaders take Jerusalem
- The Swahili coast
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Idrisi's map
- Salah al-Din at Hattin
- Ibn Rushd
- Genghis Khan
- The Delhi Sultanate
- Al-Andalus starts to fall
- The Mongols reach Islam
- Baghdad falls
9. Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals1260 to 1798 CE
- Ain Jalut
- Rumi
- Islam in Sumatra
- Osman's state
- Mansa Musa's Hajj
- Ibn Battuta sets out
- The Black Death
- Ibn Khaldun
- Timur
- Zheng He's fleets
- Constantinople falls
- Granada surrenders
- Europe reaches India
- The Safavids
- Portugal takes Malacca
- The Reformation
- Ottomans take Egypt and the Hijaz
- The Mughal Empire
- Suleiman at Vienna
- Akbar
- Sinan's Suleymaniye
- Lepanto
- The fall of Songhai
- Isfahan, half the world
- The Taj Mahal
- The second siege of Vienna
- The first Saudi state
- Plassey
- The French Revolution
- Napoleon in Egypt
10. Colonial age to today1804 CE to now
- The Sokoto Caliphate
- Muhammad Ali's Egypt
- France invades Algeria
- The last Mughal
- The Suez Canal
- The Hejaz Railway
- The First World War
- The caliphate is abolished
- Saudi Arabia
- Oil in Arabia
- Partition and Pakistan
- The Nakba
- The year of independence
- The Six-Day War
- The OIC
- The Iranian revolution
- Printing the Quran
- Central Asia independent
- 9/11 and the wars
- The Arab Spring
- Two billion Muslims