1346 AH
A young schoolteacher, Hasan al-Banna, founds the Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailia. It becomes one of the most influential Islamic movements of the century.
How it touches Islam It spread through schools, charity and preaching; governments have by turns tolerated it, banned it and fought it.
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.
