14 AH
Approximate date
Basra and Kufa are founded as camp towns for the armies in Iraq. Within a century they are great cities of Quran reading, grammar and law.
How it touches Islam Most Muslims today recite the Quran in the reading of Asim of Kufa as passed on by Hafs, and Arabic grammar was first written down in Basra.
Umar ibn al-KhattabSad ibn Abi Waqqas
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.
