63 AH
A stone inscription at Palembang records the rise of Srivijaya, a Buddhist sea power that controls the straits between India and China.
How it touches Islam These same sea lanes later carried Muslim traders, and Sumatra became home to Southeast Asia's first Muslim kingdom at Pasai.
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.
