Pasai and Aceh, Islam
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Pasai and Aceh
Banda Aceh
Sultanates of northern Sumatra, among the first Muslim states of Southeast Asia.
How does it touch Islam?
Ibn Battuta visited Pasai in 1345, and Aceh became known as the 'Veranda of Makkah' for its hajj pilgrims.
Who ruled it?
What happened in its time?
Who else is linked?
Hamzah FansuriNur al-Din al-RaniriAbd al-Rauf al-SingkiliAceh
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Empires
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- Pasai and Aceh
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- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran
Places
- Makkah
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- Zamzam
- Safa and Marwah
- Mina
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- Ta'if
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- Madinah
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- Mongolia (Karakorum)
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- Merv
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- Agra
- Panipat
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- Samudra Pasai
- Malacca
- Aceh
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- al-Abwa
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- al-Yamamah
- Amwas (Emmaus)
- Lod (Ludd)
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- Nahrawan
- al-Namara
- Zafar
- The Valley of the Ants
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