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Nabataean Arabs grow rich on the incense road and carve their capital, Petra, into rose-red rock.
How it touches Islam Their tombs at Hegra stand in al-Hijr, the land of Thamud, and their script grew into the Arabic letters of the Quran.
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.
