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Jan 1, 661
Capital to Damascus
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Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750
Umayyad Dynasty
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Jan 1, 732
Defeat at the Battle of Tours in France by Charles Martel
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Jan 1, 750
Overthrown by Abbasid faction
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Jan 1, 750
Abbasid faction from eastern Iran overthrows Umayyad dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1258
Abbasid Seljuq Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1492
Muslim Spain
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Jan 1, 751
Arab defeat of Chinese army introduces paper to the west
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Jan 1, 755
Cordoba established as Abd al Rahman’s capital
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Jan 1, 762
Baghdad becomes the Abbasid capital
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Jan 1, 1000
Shahnameh (“Book Of Kings”) published (ca.)
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Jan 1, 1025
Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine written
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Jan 1, 1031
End of the Umayyad dynasty
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Jan 1, 1055
Seljuq Turks gain control of Baghdad
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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1204
Crusades (represents the four major Crusades, not the less important earlier and later religious wars)
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Period: Nov 20, 1100 to
A Thousand and One Nights first compiled
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Period: Jan 1, 1126 to Jan 1, 1198
Life of Ibn Rushd, Averroes
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Jan 1, 1187
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem
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Nov 20, 1204
Death of Maimonides
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Jan 1, 1258
Mongols invade and destroy Baghdad, ending the Abbasid-Seljuq dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1399
Completion of the Alhambra Palace in Granada
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Jan 1, 1492
End of Muslim rule in Spain
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Assasination of Hussein at Karbala
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Completion of the Dome of the Rock
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Coins standardized; use all over the empire
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Death of Al Khwarizmi
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Construction began on the Great Mosque of Cordoba (ca.)
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Abd al-Rahman III takes the title of caliph
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Reign of Al-Ma’mun, founder of the House of Wisdom
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Period: to
Reign of Abd al-Rahman II