712 AH
Uzbeg Khan makes Islam the faith of the Golden Horde, the Mongol state of the Russian steppe. Its Tatar heirs are the Muslims of Kazan and Crimea today.
How it touches Islam Russia's Tatar Muslims trace their faith to these khans and to the Volga Bulghars, who accepted Islam four centuries earlier.
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.
