1144 AH
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, son of an imam in Senegal, is seized and sold to Maryland. A letter he writes in Arabic wins his freedom; in London he writes out the Quran from memory.
How it touches Islam Many Africans carried across the Atlantic were Muslims; some, like him, wrote Arabic and kept their prayers in slavery.
And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass?
Quran 90:12-13
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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.
