Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn `Amr, al-Imam, Abu `Abd Allah al-Humyari al-Asbahi al-Madani ( 711 – 795 CE / 93 -179 AH ), the Shaykh of Islam, Proof of the Community, Imam of the Abode of Emigration, and Knowledgeable Scholar of Madina predicted by the Prophet [saw] Imam Shafi`i, who was one of Malik’s students for nine years and a scholarly giant in his own right, stated, “when scholars are mentioned, Malik is the...
Mālik bin Dīnār (Arabic: مالك بن دينار) (died 748 CE) was from the generation of the Tabi‘in. He is mentioned as a reliable traditionist, transmitting from such authorities as Malik ibn Anas and Ibn Sirin. He was the son of a Persian slave from Kabul who became a disciple of Hasan al-Basri. He died at the age of ninety in Basra. The first Indian mosque is thought to have been built in 629 A.D, purportedly at the behest of Rama Varma...
History organised according to the dates of the events. [history_timeline] CE – Common Era [After Jesus (peace be upon him)]AH – After Hijrah [of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him]6th and 7th Century [CE] = 1st Century Hijrah [AH]8th Century [CE] = 2nd Century Hijrah [AH] Chronology of major events in Islamic history This is a short and incomplete list of major events in Islamic history. 545: Birth of Abdullah, the Holy...
The early ‘Abbasids were also fortunate in the caliber of their caliphs, especially after Harun al-Rashid came to the caliphate in 786. His reign is now the most famous in the annals of the ‘Abbasids – partly because of the fictional role given him in The Thousand and One Nights (portions of which probably date from his reign), but also because his reign and those of his immediate successors marked the high point of the...
In the Middle East, during these centuries, the ‘Abbasids, after their victory over the Umayyads, had transformed the Umayyads’ Arab empire into a multinational Muslim empire. They moved the capital of the empire from Syria to Iraq, where they built a new capital, Baghdad, from which, during the next five centuries, they would influence many of the main events of Islamic history. In the early period of ‘Abbasid rule,...
