c. 500-630: Classical Age of Arab Poetry. 570-632: Mohammed. 610-632: Revelation of the Koran to Mohammed. 622: Hegira, beginning of Muslim (lunar) calendar. 633-647: Islam conquers the area of ...
Muhammad: Triple Initiator of religion, nation, and state -- 'Umar ibn-al-Khattab: Founder of the Moslem State -- Mu'awiyah: Architect of the Arab Empire -- ''Abd-al-Rahman I: Maker of history on ...
RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - History never really dies, at least not in the Middle East. Sign up here. The Fatimid caliphate, a medieval Arab Islamic empire based in Cairo, has been at the center of a ...