In 622 the Prophet Muhammad departed from Mecca for Medina, and that year marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. Just two centuries later, his successors, the caliphs, had extended their ...

Where was the early Islamic civilisation? How did the early Islamic civilisation begin? Who was the caliph? Activity: Quiz – Introduction to early Islamic civilisation When was the early Islamic ...

By the 1300s, many people converted to Islam in southern India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Muslim scholars collected and translated books from across the known world. In Baghdad, the Abbasid caliph ...