Canaan, Also Kan'an, Canaan, the Holy Land
RegionAlso Kan'an, Canaan, the Holy Land
Canaanكنعان
The land between the Jordan and the sea where Ibrahim settled and Yaqub raised his sons.
Ibrahim came here from Iraq with Sarah and Lut, and Ishaq and Yaqub lived here as herdsmen. From here Yusuf's brothers took him to the well, and later Yaqub's whole family went down to Egypt (12:99-100). Commentators say the 'Holy Land' Musa told his people to enter (5:21) is this land.
What happened here?
Who lived here?
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.
Places
- Makkah
- The Kaaba
- 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
- Granada
- Las Navas de Tolosa
- Tours and Poitiers
- Aachen
- Palermo
- Larnaca (Cyprus)
- Rome
- Vienna
- Sarajevo
- Lepanto
- Caffa (Crimea)
- Kazan
- Paris
- Wittenberg
- Mount Judi
- Mohenjo-daro
- Anyang
- Bodh Gaya
- Gaugamela
- Cave of the Sleepers
- Mongolia (Karakorum)
- Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Bursa
- Sogut
- 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
- Xi'an (Chang'an)
- Guangzhou (Canton)
- Quanzhou (Zaytun)
- Nanjing
- Diriyah
- Riyadh
- Dammam
- Arabia
- Palestine
- 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
- Jakarta
- al-Zallaqa (Sagrajas)
- Covadonga
- Battle of the Masts
- Valencia
- Srebrenica
- Cox's Bazar
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