1381 AH
Approximate date
Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary records the whole Quran in slow, careful recitation. Records, tapes and radio carry it into homes around the world.
How it touches Islam For the first time, anyone anywhere could learn recitation from a master reciter's voice.
Or add to it, and recite the Qur'an with measured recitation.
Quran 73:4
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.
