Ottoman Empire, Islam
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Ottoman Empire
Istanbul
A Turkish dynasty that ruled across three continents for six centuries.
How does it touch Islam?
It took Constantinople in 1453, served the Two Holy Mosques, and held the caliphate until 1924.
Who ruled it?
Osman IOrhanMurad IBayezid IMehmed IMurad IIMehmed IIBayezid IISelim ISuleiman ISelim IIMurad IIIMehmed IIIAhmed IMustafa IOsman IIMurad IVIbrahimMehmed IVSuleiman IIAhmed IIMustafa IIAhmed IIIMahmud IOsman IIIMustafa IIIAbdul Hamid ISelim IIIMuhammad Ali PashaMustafa IVMahmud IIAbdulmejid IAbdulazizMurad VAbdul Hamid IIMehmed VMehmed VIAbdulmejid II
What happened in its time?
Who else is linked?
Ibn AbidinIbn al-JazariTaqi al-DinPiri ReisMimar SinanEbussuud EfendiKatip CelebiEvliya CelebiNawawi al-BantaniSaid NursiIbrahim MuteferrikaJamal al-Din al-AfghaniMakkahThe Kaabaal-Masjid al-HaramJeddahMadinahal-Masjid al-NabawiJerusalemal-Masjid al-Aqsaal-ShamAntiochDamascusAleppoMosulBasraBaghdadEgypt (Misr)Cairo and FustatSuezTunisAlgiersLarnaca (Cyprus)ViennaSarajevoLepantoWittenbergIstanbul (Constantinople)BursaSogutKonyaAnkaraAcreGazaTabrizAcehDiriyahPalestineNicaea (Iznik)ChaldiranGallipoliKhartoum
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
- Assyria
- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
- Sasanian Persia
- 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
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
- Seljuks of Rum and beyliks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming and Qing China
- Safavid Persia
- Mughal Empire
- European colonial empires
- Pahlavi Iran
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Turkey
- Independent Muslim-majority states
- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
- Phoenicia
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Minaeans, Qataban and Hadramawt
- Maurya Empire
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Parthian Empire
- Judea
- Maya civilisation
- Gupta Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Christian Nubia
- Ghassanids
- Japan
- Christian Spain
- Aghlabids
- Idrisids
- Khmer Empire
- Samanids
- Kievan Rus'
- England and Britain
- Buyids
- Song China
- France
- Taifa kingdoms
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
- Zengids
- Portugal
- Ghurids
- Hafsids
- Nasrid Granada
- 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