[fotochicaes]

A couple of weeks ago on July 4th I wished everyone in my family's email group 'Happy July 4th' and said simply that today is the 825th anniversary of the Battle of Hattin. This was the day that Saluhuddin Ayubi comprehensively defeated the crusader armies allowing Jerusalem to be recaptured shortly thereafter... (many people now know this date as in fact the date of american independence, which from a Muslim perspective, is considerably less relevant..)..

following a large positive reaction from my family, it got us thinking about the other important dates in islamic history.. and about making a list..
so with your permission, I have started to make a list. I would like to have 354/365 dates. Whatever the day is, be it today (July 17th), or December 25th, or any day one can think of, I would like people to know what happened on that day..of significance.. to Muslims

So here is the proposal..
If you are reading this thread.. and know of any item of interest which happened Islamically, or concerns Muslims, please write it down here. These are events which you think deserve greater prominence. If you know the Islamic date of it, that is fantastic! But if you do not, that is okay, don't worry, just let me know what happened which you found signficant and I will do the research Inshallah. Likewise, if you know the gregorian date, thats great, but if you do not, just jot down what you think happened of significance anyway... What would be the most helpful thing possible would be if you knew the event, the date it happened, could tell us a little bit about it and tell us the reference you used.

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What the sunniforum community gets in return - Inshallah I will compile these dates -do some further research as necessary and create a free-for-personal-use searchable list at the end of the thread and an ebook here on the forums, for everyone to be able to read.
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Here are some signficant events given at random... to give everyone an idea of what to look for and think about.

Prophet Muhammed sws - Birth - Death
Date of first revelation

Capturing of Constantinople
The day the volcano erupted near Medina fulfilling prophecy
Imam Al-Ghazali's (ra), publication of his most famous work (or birth)
Fall of Al-Andalus
Fall of Baghdad
Abolition of Ottomon Caliphate
Establishment of first mosque in UK/US
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Types of events
signficant battles/wars
dates of signifcant inventions, or publications of important works
important moments in Early Islamic history
important moments of our 'golden age'
Important moments over the last 100 years....

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We need both positive and negative moments. The negative moments are not to depress ourselves, but to remind ourselves of how we got here. The positive moments of course naturally are there to hearten us and to inspire us.

Inshallah, this project will be completed with everyone's help. Please write down below if there is anything I have written which you would like clarifcation on.. or if your feeling inspired start giving dates/events! :jzkh:

[bestcigsnick]

What a tremendously inspired idea brother, Ma sha allah.
Days that have multiple events, we could decide together which is more "important" overall
Then we could even print a calender

2nd August 1889 - First Mosque in UK, Woking, Shah Jahan Mosque
Imams include Mamaduke Pickthall.

Reference: A drawing of the Woking Mosque by the architect W. I. Chambers was published in The Building News and Engineering Journal

[Unrersvar]

What a tremendously inspired idea brother, Ma sha allah.
Days that have multiple events, we could decide together which is more "important" overall
Then we could even print a calender

2nd August 1889 - First Mosque in UK, Woking, Shah Jahan Mosque
Imams include Mamaduke Pickthall.

Reference: A drawing of the Woking Mosque by the architect W. I. Chambers was published in The Building News and Engineering Journal

Thank you for your support brother, Inshallah all of us together will make this happen. I've been to Woking mosque and alhumdullilah it is very beautiful. I believe Yusuf Ali is also buried near there. There is also Abdullah Quilliam and his work to consider. Perhaps Woking mosque could be considered the first purpose-built mosque in the UK and for that definitely should be included.

[aabbaDE]

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[HaroldMY]

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[exhibeKed]

From my brief research, it seems a lot of important dates have no Day and Month, just the Year. I guess the days and months were not so important to the ancients? Birth records were not accurate with the ancients.?

Perhaps the calender can be modified to reflect this, i dont know how exactly, ill leave that to you :P

Instead of a Yearly Calender, maybe a Millenium Calender that starts from the The Hijra in Medina until the year 20xx? (that gives us 1400 plus references) It kind of defeats the purpose of your task, so ignore the suggestion if im just being lazy with the research

What do you think brother?

[Hpdovoxm]

This is a great idea, but I feel a better platform to input the dates would be on Google docs like something on these lines I have done here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...HWTNSbGc#gid=0

But its yet to be completed...

I'll catch up with you later

p.s: I too had such plans...

[portoskins]

From my brief research, it seems a lot of important dates have no Day and Month, just the Year. I guess the days and months were not so important to the ancients? Birth records were not accurate with the ancients.?

Perhaps the calender can be modified to reflect this, i dont know how exactly, ill leave that to you :P

Instead of a Yearly Calender, maybe a Millenium Calender that starts from the The Hijra in Medina until the year 20xx? (that gives us 1400 plus references) It kind of defeats the purpose of your task, so ignore the suggestion if im just being lazy with the research

What do you think brother?

If you cannot find the month and day, that is ok. Inshallah I (or someone else) will endeavour to find it. For some, we may say something like 'In this month, Imam Al-Ghazali published work X'.. for example.. that's for the future though.. right now, the key is for us to think of 365 events, once we start getting a high number, then we can think about when they happened more Inshallah =)

Pluto - i really like that google doc, makes a lot of sense - I imagine something like that will be what the final edition looks like... =)

[sadgpokx]

In the actual year when the migration took place, there was already a functioning Lunar calendar with named months. However, this calendar did not number the years, so for example, the year Prophet Muhammad and Ammar ibn Yasir were born was called "The Year of the Elephant".

That year was named "The permission to travel". Seventeen years later, that year was chosen as the year to start counting from: first year of
Hijra, 1 Anno Hegirae or 1 AH. The first day of 1 AH corresponds to July 16, 622 CE in the Julian Calendar,[1] denoted as "1 Muharram 1 AH".

From this we can mark the beginning of hijrah and also mark seventeen years later as the year the hijri Callender was made incumbent

[Edisesyethisp]

In the actual year when the migration took place, there was already a functioning Lunar calendar with named months. However, this calendar did not number the years, so for example, the year Prophet Muhammad and Ammar ibn Yasir were born was called "The Year of the Elephant".

That year was named "The permission to travel". Seventeen years later, that year was chosen as the year to start counting from: first year of
Hijra, 1 Anno Hegirae or 1 AH. The first day of 1 AH corresponds to July 16, 622 CE in the Julian Calendar,[1] denoted as "1 Muharram 1 AH".

From this we can mark the beginning of hijrah and also mark seventeen years later as the year the hijri Callender was made incumbent

Jzkh brother for your help. Forgive my ignorance, but I need to know these things...
Who chose this date specifically as the beginning of our calender? Do you have sources on this i.e. a hadith, or could you kindly direct me to where i may find it?
Not having a hadith is okay, any form of authoritative source which an English reader can access is most important.

Everyone - I have started on this project, I will post links here regularly so you can see how work is progressing. Please, please do let me know of any events which spring to your mind, jzkh!

[soSldI4i]

11 May 2001 the day that I said Shahada

Well, it's important to me...........

[CaseyFan]

May Allah give you Tawfeeq in your efforts brother

Some Important Timeline Dates to assist you if you need insha allah.

632-4 Muslim conquest of Arabia and Southern Palestine (Under Abu Bakr As Saadeq, RA)
634-44 Omar ibn Al Khataab RA
638 Capture of Jerusalem
644-56 Othman RA
651 Defeat of Persians at Merv
656-61 Ali RA
661-750 Ummayad Dynasty
711 Conquest of Spain
750-1258 Abbasid Dynasty
751 Victory against Chinese at Talas River
969 Fatamids Take Cairo
1206 Foundation of Dehli Sultanate
1258 Mongols sacking of Baghdad
1281 Accession of Osman (ottoman empire)
1335 Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq rules most of India
1354 Ottomans capture Gallipoli - First European foothold
1389 Battle of kosovo, establishes Ottoman supremecy in Balkans
1453 Mehmet II takes Constantinople
1514-17 Ottomans defeat Persia, overrun Syria, Egypt and Arabia
1520-66 Suleiman the Magnificent becomes Ottoman Sultan
1526 Battle of Panipat: Babur conquers Dehli sultanate and founds Mughal Empire
1529 First Ottoman siege of Vienna
1556-1605 Reign of Akbar:apogee of Mughal Empire
1587-1629 Reign of Shah 'Abbas:apogee of Safavid State
1627-56 Reign of Shahjahan
1683 Second Ottoman siege of Vienna
1707 Death of Aurangzeb

[grubnismarl]

11 May 2001 the day that I said Shahada

Well, it's important to me...........

Subhanallah =)..
I too have a date like that.. 24th September 2010, the first day i prayed 5 times, on time, for the sake of no one but Allah swt. Those are the best days =)

[ensuppono]

11 Sept. 2001 the start of the 10th Crusade

[Intiltern]

What is that in my avatar??

Some sort of printing telegraph machine.

[Staillateno]

Some sort of printing telegraph machine.

Close, but no brass ring.

[Rffkwfct]

Are you sure? It looks like one to me... http://www.privateline.com/mt_digita...one_reception/ (click on the first link "(internal link)") Hughes type printing telepgrah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hughes_telegraph.jpg

[velichay]

Are you sure? It looks like one to me... http://www.privateline.com/mt_digita...one_reception/ (click on the first link "(internal link)") Hughes type printing telepgrah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hughes_telegraph.jpg

You are so close and the instruments look so much alike that I'll give you the prize.

In 1895 an Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi was the first person to develope workable radio communication. ie. First radio

Your guy Hughes, basically added a printer and made the first telegraph to print text on a paper tape.

[scoundtrack]

[Oh, okay. Thanks for the info. You should start a separate thread for this... I'm sure we're all feeling a little uneasy derailing other threads. Sorry OP.]

[Guloqkcm]

everyone,
Well work has started on this project. Please do tell me about little titbits of information you find, I will endeavour to find a space to put them in.

Here are some recent nuggets I will be putting in to give you a flavour of the project:

15th May, 1689 - Lady Montagu Born

Lady Montagu's letters back to England from Istanbul helped spread awareness of Ottoman practices to the English. She famously remarked that “The Turks govern the world and their wives govern them. In no other country women do enjoy themselves as much". She went onto to document the Ottoman practice of smallpox innoculation and was sufficiently impressed to innoculate her own son. This disease now thankfully vanquished had a mortality rate in excess of 20%. Smallpox at the time was more common in England than in the eastern world. Edward Jenner commonly misattributed as the inventor of vaccinations, discovered his technique 80 years after Lady Montagu first documented this practice.

14th September, 786 - Caliph Harun Al-Rashid comes to the throne

The Caliph has passed into legend due to 1001 Arabian Nights amongst other things. What is known however is that in his time, the wealth and spread of Muslims expanded dramatically. Muslims developed the 'saqq' system which is now known by the term cheque/check. These advanced promissory notes enabled traders to cash in cheques from their bank accounts in Baghdad on trading missions in China. This system laid the foundationstones for inter continental trade allowing great wealth to flow into the empire. It is estimated at the end of the Caliph's reign, the islamic treasury had 900million dirhams. In modern money this is estimated at around $3 billion, by the standards of their time, an extraordinary amount.

24th December, 1568

One of the most tragic episodes in Islamic history began on this day. The Spanish Muslims known as 'Moriscos' (a pejorative term) were a group of over 100,000 muslims who had been forcibly converted to catholicism following the surrender of Cordoba. Living on the south coast of Spain, they were denied the right to their religion. The rebellion itself was sparked by Phillip II banning the use of arabic, muslim dress and with instructions to destroy all books written in Arabic and for Morisco children to be educated by priests. Unable to bear this, the Muslims renounced their 'catholicism' and rose up. Whilst they received some support from Algeria, this was insufficient for them to withstand the experienced troops of Spain which had become the most fearsome landpower in Europe at the time. Their rebellion failed and the Moriscos were ethnically cleansed from southern Spain, with many relocated and dispersed, the ones who refused christianity were expelled. The depopulated villages were filled with northern settlers. The remaining Moriscos were closely monitored forbidden from any manner of Islamic activity being required to for example leave their doors and windows open on Fridays to ensure they did not do Jumaah prayer. Not satisfied with even this, in 1609, the remaining Moriscos were forcibly expelled with their goods stolen from them on their sea voyages to lands on the North African coast.

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The last topic made me very upset to discover and to write about. I have been remembering them in my duas today, very sad moment.

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Brothers and sisters, please share any important moments of islamic history here.
I am especially interested (but not exclusively), in islamic women and what they achieved. As Lady Montagu remarked, The Turks govern the world, and their wives govern them. I know Muslim women have contributed a lot to our history, i want to honour that.



ps i will make grammatical changes before publishing properly ^^