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The Iliad and the Odyssey, long poems credited to Homer, are sung across the Greek world.
How it touches Islam Arabs too prized poetry above every art, which is why the Quran's challenge to make one surah like it (2:23) struck so hard.
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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.
