Approximate date
A Greek king bans Jewish worship and defiles the temple. The Maccabee family revolts and rededicates it, as Hanukkah remembers.
How it touches Islam The Quran says that if Allah did not check some people by others, synagogues, churches and mosques would be pulled down (22:40).
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.
