31 AH
Envoys from the caliph reach the Tang emperor at Chang'an, the first Arab embassy in Chinese records. Muslim traders settle in Guangzhou and Quanzhou.
How it touches Islam China's oldest mosques, like Huaisheng in Guangzhou, grew from these trading communities.
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.
