17 events with tag "Islam"
638
ID: 4878
Muslim conquest of Jerusalem - Jews allowed to return after Byzantine ban, new era begins
ID: 4878
650
ID: 4864
Islam conquers Babylon - Jewish academies continue under Muslim rule, new legal questions arise
ID: 4864
651
ID: 4658
Arab conquest ends Zoroastrian state - Islam replaces Zoroastrianism, many flee to India as Parsis
ID: 4658
651
ID: 4696
Death of Yazdegerd III - murdered at Merv, end of Sassanid Empire and Zoroastrian state
ID: 4696
720
ID: 2865
Muslim forces cross Pyrenees - conquer Septimania (Narbonne), raid into Aquitaine, threaten Frankish lands
ID: 2865
730
ID: 4888
John of Damascus writes On Heresies - First to include Islam as Christian heresy, Eastern perspective
ID: 4888
801
ID: 2914
Barcelona captured - Louis the Pious takes city after two-year siege, establishes Spanish March against Muslims
ID: 2914
1125
ID: 185
Toledo translation movement accelerates - Arabic works of Aristotle, medicine, mathematics pour into Latin West
ID: 185
1192
ID: 212
Assassins (Nizari Ismailis) murder Conrad of Montferrat - political assassination as religious tool
ID: 212
1198
ID: 209
Death of Averroes (Ibn Rushd) - last great Muslim Aristotelian philosopher, influences Aquinas
ID: 209
1236
ID: 44
Cordoba falls to Ferdinand III - Great Mosque converted to cathedral
ID: 44
1258
ID: 48
Mongols sack Baghdad - end of Islamic Golden Age, destruction of House of Wisdom
ID: 48
1258
ID: 4744
Mongols sack Baghdad - Hulagu Khan destroys House of Wisdom, kills 800,000, ends Islamic Golden Age
ID: 4744
1291
ID: 53
May 18, 1291
Fall of Acre - last Crusader stronghold lost, end of Crusader states
ID: 53
1492
ID: 84
January 2, 1492
Fall of Granada - Reconquista complete after 781 years
ID: 84
1914
ID: 1227
German Foreign Office initiates 'jihad strategy' - Kaiser Wilhelm II declares himself 'protector of Islam,' attempts to incite Islamic uprising against British Empire
ID: 1227
1933
ID: 1407
Hitler begins cultivating Islamic movements against British and French colonial empires
ID: 1407