Chapters
The history, in seven chapters
Read them in order or jump to an era. Each chapter links to its maps, rulers and battles.
- 1632 to 661
The Rightly Guided Caliphs
Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali: from Madinah to Persia, Syria and Egypt in 29 years.
3 min read · 23 battles - 2661 to 750
The Umayyads
Damascus, Karbala, and the conquests from Spain to Sindh.
2 min read · 9 battles - 3750 to 1517
The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
Baghdad's golden age, Salahuddin, and the fall of Baghdad in 1258.
2 min read · 19 battles - 4711 to 1857
Al-Andalus and the Subcontinent
From Tariq ibn Ziyad to Granada, and from Muhammad bin Qasim to the Mughals.
2 min read · 18 battles - 51299 to 1924
The Ottomans
36 sultans, Constantinople, Vienna, and the last caliphate.
2 min read · 24 battles - 6637 to today
Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem
Everyone who took the city, and everyone who tried.
2 min read · 10 battles - 71924 to today
The Modern Muslim World
Saudi Arabia and America, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.
3 min read · 18 battles
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