Approximate date
Fifteen years after the battle of Kadesh, Egypt and the Hittites sign the oldest surviving peace treaty. A copy hangs at the United Nations.
How it touches Islam The Quran says: 'If they incline to peace, then incline to it also' (8:61).
Ramesses IIHattusili III
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.
