1247 AH
Omar ibn Said, a scholar from Senegal enslaved in North Carolina, writes his life story in Arabic. He begins it with Surat al-Mulk, written from memory.
How it touches Islam It is the only known autobiography in Arabic by a man enslaved in the United States.
Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent -
Quran 67:1
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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.
