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Darius I rules the largest empire yet, from the Indus to Egypt, joined by royal roads. He begins the palace city of Persepolis.
How it touches Islam A thousand years later Persia's heartland became Muslim, giving Islam Salman al-Farisi, Sibawayh and many of its great scholars.
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.
