Approximate date
Poems about Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, are written down. In later versions a man named Utnapishtim survives a great flood in a boat.
How it touches Islam The Quran's story of Nuh (11:25-48) is about one God, warning and repentance, where the epic tells of quarrelling gods.
Gilgamesh
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.
