19 results for “empire”
Clear filter...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 ...