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Move through the museum by date. Each stop is one record from the museum, shown in time order; drafts are labelled.

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Event (50)

Ibrahim's journeys to Mecca — -2000~ draft
The rebuilding of the Kaaba — 0605~ draft
The prescription of the Ramadan fast — 0624~ draft
Ibn Abi Hadrad's raid on Batn Idam and the killing of Amir ibn al-Adbat — 0629~ draft
The capture and release of Hatim al-Ta'i's daughter — 0631~ draft
The Death of Yazdgard ibn Shahriyar — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Suhayl ibn Amr's speech in Mecca at the Prophet's death — 0632-06-08~ draft
Battle of Nahavand (21 AH) — 0641 draft
Yazīd ibn Shajara sent to seize the Ḥajj and Mecca's bayʿa for Muʿāwiya (39 AH) — 0659 draft
Rutbil's War and al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers — 0717/0720 draft
The Killing of Ma'n ibn Za'ida — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The fall of Barcelona to the Franks (185 AH) — 0801~ draft
The Great Plague of Basra — 0871~ draft
The Ubaydid al-Mahdi's triumph in the Maghreb and its departure from Abbasid rule — 0909~ draft
Siege of Naples (958) — 0958 draft
Battle of Alcala de Henares — 1006 draft
Siege of Messina (1041) — 1041 draft
Siege of Zaragoza (1086) — 1086 draft
Battle of Ghazni — 1117 draft
Battle of Ghazni — 1148 draft
the great ʿAjam earthquake — Iraq to beyond Rayy — 1178~ draft
Death of Salah al-Din and his estate — 1193~ draft
The Georgians Take a City in Rum by the Sword, 605 — 1208~ draft
The ruler of Yemen takes Mecca — 1223~ draft
Building the Mustansiriyya madrasa in Baghdad — 1234~ draft
The fall of al-Mughith, lord of Karak — 1263~ draft
Battle of Amroha — 1305 draft
Fall of Sis (1375) — 1375 draft
Zayyanid capture of Fez — 1410 draft
The second battle of Kosovo — 1448-10-17 draft
The treacherous seizure of Alhama and the repulsed Muslim siege — 1482-02~ draft
Battle of Diyarbakır (1511) — 1511 draft
Khayr al-Din takes Tunis (1534) — 1534 draft
Capture of Bizerte (1557) — 1557 draft
Battle of Mombasa (1589) — 1589 draft
Battle of Martynów — 1624-06-20 draft
Conquest of the Fortress of Neuhausl — 1663-09-28 draft
Siege of Tunis (1694) — 1694 draft
Treaty of Belgrade — 1739 draft
Battle of Grigoripolis (1785) — 1785 draft
Battle of Hasan Abdal (1813) — 1813 draft
Battle of Turkochori (1826) — 1826 draft
Second Egyptian–Ottoman War — 1839 draft
Belovski Raid (1876) — 1876 draft
Battle of Dilam — 1903-01-27 draft
Battle for No.3 Post — 1915 draft
Battle of Sharqat — 1918 draft
Occupation of East Jerusalem (1967) — 1967-06-05 draft
November 2024 Batroun raid — 2024-11-02 draft

Person (50)

Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim — 0497~ draft
Abraha — 0520~ draft
The Ghamidi woman — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jabir ibn Samura — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tha'laba ibn Hatib — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Shurahah — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Abu Sakhr al-Hudhali — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kabsha bint Ka'b ibn Malik — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Yazid ibn Ziyad ibn Abihi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Abu Dalama — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Mu'tasim — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jabalah ibn Suhaym — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kamil ibn Talha — 0762 draft
Ahmad ibn Harun al-Bardiji — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Uthman ibn Said al-Anmati — — draft
al-Isbijabi, Abu Nasr — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Al-Barqani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad — 0948 draft
Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi — 1024 draft
Abdallah ibn Hashim al-Tusi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ibn al-Bitriq al-Hilli — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Somuncu Baba — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Jawzaqani — — draft
al-Hawfi Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad — — draft
al-Hasan ibn Zayd al-Da'i ila al-Haqq — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Janbirdi al-Ghazali — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Taqi al-Bayyi', vizier to five sultans — 1223~ draft
Bulus the monk, al-Habis — — draft
'Ali ibn Sudun — 1382~ draft
Ahmad ibn 'Arus of Tunis — — draft
Ahmad al-Attar — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Dervish Pasha al-Busnawi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hoca Sadeddin Efendi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kuda Kala Kamanafa'anu — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Murad IV — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Sehabi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Yar Muhammad al-Harawi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Muhammad al-Samarqandi al-Husayni, the five-language munshi — — draft
Ibn 'Adwan al-Razini — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Mulla Hasan al-Bazzaz — 1845 draft
Habibullah Khan — 1872-07-02
Khallaf Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Wahid — 1888 draft
Mohammed V of Morocco — 1909-08-10
Ahmed Bakir Mahmoud — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Abderrahmane Youssoufi — 1924-03-08
Alois Musil — — draft
Mohamoud Ali Shire — — draft
André Carson — 1974-10-16
Ilhan Omar — 1982-10-04
Said ibn Harun al-Ashnandani — — draft

Place (50)

Abyssinia (Aksum) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Sham (Greater Syria) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Dabil (Dvin) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jurzan (Kartli/Iberia) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Radman — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Uyun al-Taff (the Taff Springs) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Rawda al-Sharifa — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Farda — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Idam — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Shakar — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Al-Farama (Pelusium) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Al-Kiryawn — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
al-Nashastaj — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Amwas (Emmaus) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ayn al-Sayd — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Balanjar — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Daquqa — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hamadhan — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hulwan — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jabala — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kalwadha — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kutha — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Mar'ash (Germanikeia) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Nasibin (Nisibis) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Qarqisiya (Circesium) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Qinnasrin — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ra's al-Ayn — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Shimshat (Arsamosata) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tabaristan — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tizanabadh — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Zibatra — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Nil — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Strait and Jabal Tariq — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Khayzan — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Nahr al-Mubarak — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Suq Yusuf — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Wasit — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Karkh — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Badhandun — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Nizamiyya Madrasa — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Barbastro — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jazirat al-Arab (the Arabian Peninsula) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Almeria — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
the Seven Monasteries (Wadi al-Natrun) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Alhama — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Baza — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Velez-Malaga — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Amarkot (Umarkot, Tharparkar, Sind) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
The Philippine archipelago — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft

Polity (50)

The Kingdom of Saba (Sheba) — -1100~ draft
The Ghassanid Kingdom — 0220~ draft
The Aksumite Kingdom (Abyssinia) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Mihranids — 0500 draft
Brahmin dynasty of Sindh — 0631 draft
Dabuyid dynasty — 0642 draft
Caliphate of Córdoba — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Banu Salih ibn Mansur, kings of Nekour — 0750~ draft
Wasulid (Midrarid) state of Sijilmasa — 0757 draft
Justanids — 0791 draft
Samanid dynasty — 0819 draft
Emirate of Sicily — 0827
Hamdanid dynasty — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Sulaymanid sharifate of Mecca — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Sajid dynasty — 0889 draft
Ziyarid dynasty — 0928~ draft
Adal — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Hawashim emirate of Mecca — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Mazyadid dynasty — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kalbid emirate of Sicily — 0948 draft
Hasanwayhid dynasty — 0959~ draft
Zirid dynasty — 0969 draft
Numayrid dynasty — 0990 draft
Hammudid state — 1016 draft
Banu Hud dynasty — 1039 draft
Banu Jami', Hilali amirs of Gabes — 1043 draft
Khwarazmian Empire — 1077 draft
Awlad Mandil — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kingdom of Castile — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Shah-i Arman of Akhlat — 1100 draft
Zengid dynasty — 1127 draft
Nabhani dynasty — 1150 draft
Mamluk dynasty of Delhi — 1206 draft
Ashraf-oghullari — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Qutlugh-Khanids of Kirman — 1222 draft
Mali Empire — 1235~ draft
Kartid dynasty — 1244 draft
Ilkhanate — 1256 draft
Ottoman Empire — 1299-07-29 draft
Muzaffarid dynasty — 1335 draft
Bahmani Sultanate — 1347 draft
Mar'ashis — 1359 draft
Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat — 1407 draft
Hussain Shahi dynasty — 1494 draft
Safavid Iran — 1501 draft
Saadi dynasty — 1549 draft
Keira dynasty — 1640 draft
Mamluk rule in Iraq — 1704 draft
Hamengkubuwono dynasty — 1755 draft
Muhammad Ali dynasty — 1805 draft

Period (13)

Pre-Islamic Arabia — 0500~ draft
The Prophetic Era — 0610~ draft
The Rashidun Caliphate — 0632 draft
The Umayyad Period — 0661 draft
The Early Abbasid Caliphate — 0750 draft
Abbasid Fragmentation — 0861~ draft
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era — 0945 draft
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks — 1095 draft
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era — 1219 draft
The Gunpowder Empires — 1500~ draft
The Colonial Era — 1798 draft
The Modern Era — 1924 draft
The Contemporary Era — 1979 draft

Work (50)

Farwa ibn Musayk's verses on the Day of al-Radm and on his journey to the Prophet — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Abu Ji'al al-Judhami's verses after the Prophet restored what was taken from Judham — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Amr ibn Ma'dikarib's poem to Qays ibn Makshuh, 'I counselled you on the day of Dhu San'a'' — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Farewell Sermon — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hassan ibn Thabit's poem 'Those are my people, if you ask, noble' — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Khalid ibn Said's reply to his brother Aban — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Salma bint Attab's two verses on the day of Banu al-Anbar — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ka'b ibn Malik's elegy for the Mu'tah martyrs — 0629~ draft
Malik ibn Awf's eulogy of the Prophet at al-Ji'rana — 0630-02 draft
Labid ibn Rabi'a's elegies for his brother Arbad — 0631~ draft
Tarikh al-Khulafa — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Akhlaq al-Muluk — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ansab Himyar wa-Mulukiha — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Mukhtasar al-Kharaqi — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Adab al-Katib — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Akhbar al-Wuzara' — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Istiab fi Ma'rifat al-Ashab — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Amali Ibn Durayd — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ikhtilaf al-Nuhat — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kitab al-Aghani — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-I'tisam fi'l-Hadith — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
A'lam al-Nubuwwa — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Amthal al-Qur'an — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Lubab al-Ihya' — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Nahj al-Balagha — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-A'laq al-Khatira fi Tarikh al-Sham wal-Jazira — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Ilmam fi Ahadith al-Ahkam — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Mughni — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa-Nihayat al-Muqtasid — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hirz al-Amani wa-Wajh al-Tahani (al-Shatibiyya) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Imta' al-Asma' fima lil-Nabi min al-Hafada wa-al-Mata' — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Lum'at al-I'tiqad — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Shaqundi's Epistle on the Excellence of al-Andalus over the Farther Shore — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Akhlaq-i Nasiri — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
al-Mughrib fi Hula al-Maghrib — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
A'yan al-'Asr wa-A'wan al-Nasr — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Jannat al-Rida fi al-Taslim lima Qadar Allah wa-Qada — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Revision of the Almagest — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Theologus Autodidactus — 1270 draft
Duha al-Islam — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tafsir al-Sha'rawi (al-Khawatir) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Islam wal-Manahij al-Ishtirakiyya (Islam and Socialist Methods) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Satanic Verses — 1988 draft
My Name Is Red — 1998 draft
The Kite Runner — 2003 draft
The Forty Rules of Love — 2009 draft
Submission — 2015 draft

Concept (50)

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ada' al-shahada (performing testimony: the duty on request, the excused witness, and the wording) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Akdariyya (a named inheritance case) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Kufr as concealment of the truth — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tasbih and taqdis (glorifying and sanctifying God) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Command, prohibition and capacity — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ard (land: purity, places and rulings) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The Bahira legend — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Writing down debts and calling witnesses — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Blood-money (diya) in fiqh — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Veneration of graves — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Wisdom (hikma) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Daughter's son — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ihsar (being prevented from completing the rite) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Ikhfa (concealment in worship and law) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Iltimas (seeking, as in looking for the moon or water) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Impotence (inna) as a ground for the wife's option to end the marriage — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Iradah (will and intention: its place in contracts, acts and consent) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Unity of the ruling (ittihad al-hukm) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Dog (kalb), fiqh rulings — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Khimar (women's head covering in fiqh) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Labba (the place of slaughter on the chest) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Colostrum (lubaʾ), fiqh rulings — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Objectives of the Shari'a (maqasid al-shari'a) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Water for purification: its kinds and rulings (miyah) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The grave-robber who steals shrouds (nabbash) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The defective case of inheritance (naqisa) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Nuqra (bullion) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Curtailing hope in the world (qisar al-amal) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Monk (rahib): his killing in jihad and the jizya on monks — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Rifada (the provision for pilgrims, which Quraysh collected in the pre-Islamic period): its meaning, its related posts, and its standing in law — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Rutuba (moisture): whether the moisture of a woman's private part, of a beast and of a contact with an impurity is pure, and its effects on cleaning with stones and on wet semen — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Sharika (partnership: ownership and contract, its kinds, conditions, effects and end) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
The submission of creation (willing and unwilling) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Tazkiyya — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Unutha (femininity; the honour of the female in Islam, her rights and duties, and the rules that apply to her) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Waqt (time, fiqh) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Yalamlam (miqat of Yemen, fiqh) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Isnad — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Halal (the lawful) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hayd (menstruation) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearing — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Khiyar fawat al-wasf (option for loss of a stipulated quality) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Wajib (the obligatory: kinds, grades and how it is discharged) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Internal causes of Muslim decline — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Alay (Ottoman ceremonial parade and the military term) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Economic scarcity — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Japan and Muslim hopes after 1904 — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Implementing the sharia — totality versus stages — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)

Practice (8)

Etiquette of eating (adab al-akl) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Honouring one's parents (birr al-walidayn) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Dhabihah (halal slaughter) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Greeting with peace (salam) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Salah (the prescribed prayer) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period)
Fasting in Ramadan — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft
Zakat (obligatory alms) — — (Placed on the timeline from a linked period) draft