Umayyads of Cordoba, Islam
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Umayyads of Cordoba
Cordoba
Umayyad survivors who ruled al-Andalus from Cordoba, a city of libraries and lamps.
How does it touch Islam?
Its Great Mosque and scholars made Cordoba a centre of Muslim learning in Europe.
Who ruled it?
Abd al-Rahman IHisham IAl-Hakam IAbd al-Rahman IIMuhammad I of CordobaAl-MundhirAbdallah ibn MuhammadAbd al-Rahman IIIAl-Hakam IIHisham IIAl-Mansur ibn Abi AmirHisham III
Who else is linked?
Al-Mutamid ibn AbbadYahya ibn Yahya al-LaythiIbn Abd al-BarrIbn HazmAbbas ibn FirnasAl-ZahrawiAl-BakriCordobaToledoSevilleValencia
Who were its neighbours in time?
Abbasid CaliphateIdrisidsAghlabidsSamanidsFatimid CaliphateBuyidsGhaznavidsTaifa kingdomsChristian SpainKhmer Empire
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
- Sumer and Akkad
- Ancient Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Babylonia
- Shang and Zhou China
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- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
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- Byzantine Empire
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Empire of Ghana
- Tang China
- Franks and Holy Roman Empire
- State of Madinah
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Umayyads of Cordoba
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ghaznavids
- Seljuk Empire
- Almoravids and Almohads
- Ayyubids
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mongol Empire
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- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
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- European colonial empires
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- Republic of Turkey
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- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
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- Kingdom of Kush
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- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
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- Golden Horde
- Marinids
- Pasai and Aceh
- Russia
- Ifat and Adal
- Deccan sultanates
- Bengal Sultanate
- Timurids
- Malacca Sultanate
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Kanem-Bornu
- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran
Places
- Makkah
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- al-Masjid al-Haram
- Zamzam
- Safa and Marwah
- Mina
- Muzdalifah
- Arafat
- Cave of Hira
- Cave of Thawr
- Ta'if
- Wadi Nakhla
- al-Hudaybiyyah
- Hunayn
- Jeddah
- Madinah
- al-Masjid al-Nabawi
- Quba Mosque
- Masjid al-Qiblatayn
- Jannat al-Baqi
- Mount Uhud
- Badr
- Khaybar
- Tabuk
- Mu'tah
- Najran
- Dumat al-Jandal
- Jerusalem
- al-Masjid al-Aqsa
- al-Sham
- Canaan
- Hebron (al-Khalil)
- Sodom and the Dead Sea
- Jericho (Ariha)
- Valley of Elah
- Bethlehem
- Nazareth
- Galilee and Tiberias
- Hawran and Busra
- Baalbek
- Antioch
- Damascus
- Aleppo
- Urfa (Edessa)
- Harran
- Mesopotamia
- Uruk
- Ur
- Akkad
- Babylon (Babil)
- Nineveh
- Mosul
- Ctesiphon (al-Mada'in)
- al-Hirah
- al-Qadisiyyah
- Kufa
- Najaf
- Basra
- Karbala
- Baghdad
- Samarra
- Darb Zubaydah
- Egypt (Misr)
- The Nile (al-Yamm)
- Memphis
- Giza
- Cairo and Fustat
- Alexandria
- Suez
- The Sea Crossing (Red Sea)
- Sinai (the Wilderness)
- Mount Sinai (al-Tur)
- Valley of Tuwa
- Junction of the Two Seas
- Madyan
- Ayla (Aqaba)
- al-Hijr (Hegra)
- Iram of the Pillars
- al-Ahqaf
- Hadramawt
- al-Rass
- Saba and Ma'rib
- Sana'a
- Aden
- Muscat
- Petra
- Palmyra (Tadmur)
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Harar
- Kairouan
- Mahdia
- Tunis
- Tiaret
- Algiers
- Fez
- Marrakesh
- Rabat
- Tangier
- Timbuktu
- Gao
- Tondibi
- Djenne
- Sokoto
- Dakar
- Kilwa
- Zanzibar
- Mogadishu
- Gibraltar (Jabal Tariq)
- Cordoba
- Toledo
- Seville
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- Tours and Poitiers
- Aachen
- Palermo
- Larnaca (Cyprus)
- Rome
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- Sarajevo
- Lepanto
- Caffa (Crimea)
- Kazan
- Paris
- Wittenberg
- Mount Judi
- Mohenjo-daro
- Anyang
- Bodh Gaya
- Gaugamela
- Cave of the Sleepers
- Mongolia (Karakorum)
- Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Bursa
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- Konya
- Ankara
- Manzikert
- Yarmuk
- Hattin
- Acre
- Gaza
- Ain Jalut
- Nahavand
- Hamadan
- Isfahan
- Shiraz
- Tabriz
- Tehran (and Rayy)
- Tus
- Nishapur
- Merv
- Herat
- Bukhara
- Samarkand
- Khwarazm (Urgench)
- Talas
- Tashkent
- Debal
- Multan
- Karachi
- Ghazni
- Kabul
- Lahore
- Delhi
- Agra
- Panipat
- Plassey
- Calicut
- Samudra Pasai
- Malacca
- Aceh
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- Nanjing
- Diriyah
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- Dammam
- Arabia
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- The Euphrates
- Nubia
- Punjab
- al-Abwa
- Ukaz
- al-Muraysi'
- Bi'r Ma'unah
- al-Yamamah
- Amwas (Emmaus)
- Lod (Ludd)
- Machaerus
- Siffin
- Nahrawan
- al-Namara
- Zafar
- The Valley of the Ants
- Thebes (Luxor)
- Pi-Ramesses (Avaris)
- Persepolis
- Nicaea (Iznik)
- Balkh
- Otrar
- Sarai
- al-Mansurah
- Chaldiran
- Gallipoli
- Khartoum
- Deoband
- Aligarh
- Koumbi Saleh
- Niani
- Kanem (Njimi)
- Mazara
- Mascara
- Gunib
- Palembang
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- Covadonga
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