Approximate date
Bubonic plague sweeps the Mediterranean and kills a huge share of Constantinople. It returns again and again for two centuries.
How it touches Islam The Prophet ﷺ taught: if plague is in a land, do not enter it, and if you are in it, do not flee.
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.
