34 results for “empire”
...ial expansion in Islamic history. He conquered the Sassanid Empire, took the Levant and Egypt from Byzantines, established the...
...fierce fighting. This battle effectively ended the Sassanid Empire and opened Persia to Islam.
Uthman expanded the Islamic empire to its greatest extent under the Rashidun, conquered Armeni...
Under the Mali and Songhai Empires, Timbuktu became one of the greatest centers of Islamic le...
Under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith. The empire stretched from Hungary to Ye...
Babur founded the Mughal Empire in India. Under Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb,...
...ough trans-Saharan trade routes and scholarly networks. The empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai embraced Islam, with Mansa Mus...
...y issues, it demonstrated the military power of the Ottoman Empire at its peak and shaped European-Ottoman relations for centu...
Mansa Musa, the Muslim emperor of the Mali Empire, undertook his famous pilgrimage to Mecca with a caravan of...
...ina, establishing the first Muslim contact with the Chinese empire. Over the following centuries, Arab and Persian traders set...
... naval dominance in the Mediterranean. However, the Ottoman Empire remained a major power for centuries after.
The Ottoman Empire, having entered World War I on the side of the Central Powe...
...y in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Ottoman Empire. His major work Kitab al-Tawhid systematized orthodox Sunni...
Genghis Khan invaded the Khwarezmian Empire, systematically destroying Bukhara, Samarkand, Balkh, Nisha...
...ated the Delhi Sultan at Panipat and established the Mughal Empire, which would rule India for over three centuries.
The Ottoman Tanzimat reforms attempted to modernize the empire through legal, educational, and administrative changes.
The Mali Empire under Mansa Musa and successors was a major center of Islam...
...en the Muslim armies conquered the entirety of the Sassanid Empire under the caliphate of Umar. Chosroes himself was overthrow...
...ity and served as the northern buffer between the Byzantine Empire and Arabia. When al-Harith read the letter, he threw it on ...
...ndard reference for Hanafi jurisprudence across the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It presents leg...
...piece of Quranic exegesis by the Grand Mufti of the Ottoman Empire. Abu as-Su'ud combined deep linguistic analysis with Maturi...
...ection of essays by the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire defending Hanafi-Maturidi theology.
From the first migration to Abyssinia to the great empires of Mali and Songhai: Islam's deep roots in Africa.
The intellectual tradition of the Ottoman Empire, from Sheyhulislam fatwas to advances in astronomy, archite...
European colonization of Muslim lands from the 18th to 20th centuries and its lasting impact on the ummah.
A comprehensive overview of the Ottoman state from its founding in 1299 CE to its dissolution after World War I.
The Muslim dynasty that ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1526 to 1857, leaving an enduring cultural and architectural legacy.
The decisive Muslim victory over the Byzantine Empire that opened the Levant to Islam, Khalid ibn al-Walid's stra...
...qqas, the exchange with Rustam, and the fall of the Persian Empire.