860 AH
Approximate date
Gutenberg prints the Bible with movable type in Mainz. Within fifty years Europe has millions of printed books.
How it touches Islam The first Arabic Quran ever printed came from Venice around 1537, full of errors; Muslims went on copying it by hand for nearly three more centuries.
Johannes Gutenberg
Who taught by the pen -
Quran 96:4
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.
