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Caliphate

Islamic form of government

16 dated entries naming Caliphate, drawn from 16 separate years between 573 CE and 1938 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century

  • 573Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliph (approximate date)source
  • 577Uthman ibn Affan, Muslim Caliph (d. 656)source
  • 583Umar, companion of Muhammad (d. 644) and second Caliph of Rashidun Caliphatesource

7th century

  • 623March 28 – Marwan I, Muslim Caliph (d. 685)source
  • 634August 23 – Abu Bakr, Muslim Caliphsource
  • 645Yazid I, Muslim Caliph (d. 683)source
  • 646Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Muslim Caliph (d. 705)source
  • 656June 20 – Uthman ibn Affan, Muslim Caliph (b. 577) (martyred)source

8th century

  • 724January 26 – (24 Sha'ban 105 AH) Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, becomes the new Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, which covers most of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, after his brother Yazid II dies of tuberculosis following a 4-year reign. Hisham reigns for 19 years, during which he appoints Khalid al-Qasri as of Governor of Iraqsource
  • 785Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi, Muslim Caliphsource

10th century

  • 949Abd al-Rahman III the Caliph of Córdoba declares Jihad, preparing a large army & conquers the city of Lugo in the extreme North of Iberia. This raid shows to be one of the furthest raids Muslims in Spain ever conducted, done as a show of strength of the Muslim State in Al-Andalus.source

11th century

  • 1012Summer – The climax of the Bedouin anti-Fatimid rebellion in Palestine is reached. Abu'l-Futuh al-Hasan ibn Ja'far is acclaimed as anti-Caliph with the title of al-Rashid bi-llah ("Righteous with God").source
  • 1094After the death of Caliph al-Mustansir Billah, his son-in-law and vizier Al-Afdal declares al-Musta'li, a younger son of al-Mustansir, in a coup d'état as new Caliph. Al-Mustansir's designated heir, Nizar, flees to Alexandria.source

15th century

20th century

  • 1922November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.source
  • 1938Majlis Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya is established by Khalifat-ul Masih II, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.source

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