3 - A Very Short History of Islam

Learn 1,400 years of Islam in under 30 minutes!

1. Before the first revelation – before 610.

2. The Mecca period – 610-622.

3. The Medina period – 622-632

4. Rightly guided caliphs – 632-661

5. Umayyad (spell) Caliphate – 661-750

6. Abbasid (spell) Caliphate 750-1258

7. Mongol Era 1258-1503

8. The Gunpowder Empires – Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals 1503 until about 1800

9. Decline and colonization – 1800s to 1918

10. The modern century – 1918 to present