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"The most excellent jihad is that forthe conquest of self."

870 Ali Ibn Rabban at-Tabari writesfirst encyclopedia of Medicine

913-1005 Paper replaces rare andcostly writing materials in the Mus-lim world

858-929 Al-Battani (Albategnius)calculates the length of the year anddetermines the precession of theequinoxes

929 Abu Abdullah Al-Battani is firstto correctly calculate the length ofsolar year to the second

930 Mohammad al-Razi's 10-vol-ume encyclopedia of Greco-ArabMedicine identifies source of small-pox, classifies organic and inorganiccompounds

945 Pope Sylvester II introduces Is-lamic Mathematics to Europe

953 Emperor Otto First�s ambassa-dor to Muslim Cordova returns withmanuscripts

953 Lorraine becomes one of thefirst centers for diffusion of Muslimscience

961 Calendar of Cordova, nine cen-turies ahead of Europe, describes thescience of Agriculture

970 Al-Azhar University founded

977 Hospital founded in Baghdademploys 24 physicians, includes de-partments for surgery and eye dis-eases

980 Birth of Ibn Sina, who laterwrites The Canon of Medicine, infive volumes

T IM E L I N E610-632 Quran is revealed to Prophet Mu-hammad (PBUH)

632-732 Muslims conquer lands from Spainin the West to Indus river in India

732 Charles Martels checks Arab advance inSouthern France at Battle of Poitiers

800s Paper factory in Baghdad�first out-side China

800sMash�allah writes on the astrolabe

803 Jabir Ibn Haiyan, father of modernChemistry, classifies the elements

807 Harun al-Rashid gives Charlemagne aclock that strikes the hours

820 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmiwrites Al-jabr wa'l Muqabalah, from whichwe derive the word "Algebra"

829 Al-Mamun builds observatory, Muslimastronomers construct planetary tables, cal-culate earth's circumference

840 Muhammad al-Khawarizmi founds Al-gebra, lays foundation for Trigonometry

840-849 Muslim traveler and writer Sulei-man reaches China

858 Al-Batani (Albategnius) introduces theuse of Trigonometry in Astronomy

860 Al-Kindi writes on Astronomy and Op-tics

863 Byzantines defeat Muslims at Anatolia

864-930Al-Razi classifies chemical substan-ces into mineral, vegetable, animal, and de-rivative

868 Ahmad ibn Tulun, a Turkish slave, be-comes the governor of Egypt

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Dedicated in loving memory to Moham-med Sultan Khan who died February 5,1973, in Pakistan.

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TWF recognizes the work and contribu-tion of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan the nuclearscientist behind Pakistan�s nuclear bomb.

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1095 Pope Urban II proclaims FirstCrusade for the occupation of Al-Quds at Council of Clermont

1096 Crusaders arrive in Constanti-nople

1096 Muslims defeat the CrusaderPeter the Hermit

1097 Crusaders defeat Turks

1100s Translation of Muslim scienceinto Latin begins in Spain

1105 King Baldwin I of Jerusalemdefeats the Muslims in Palestine

1106-1139 Ibn Bajja (Avempace), aHispano Muslim writes on physics,constructs model of planetary sys-tem

1109 Muslim stronghold of Tripoliis occupied by King Baldwin I ofJerusalem

1125 King Baldwin II of Jerusalemdefeats Emir of Mosul (Iraq)

1126 Adelard of Bath translates Al-Khwarizmi's astronomical tables andtreatise on mathematics into Latin

1138 Byzantine Emperor John II at-tacks Syria but is defeated

1143 Robert of Chester translatesthe Koran�full of distortions, andAl-Khwarizmi's Algebra into Latin

1144 Christian Coalition calls for anew Crusade, second Crusade be-gins

1146 Pope Eugenius III proclaimsthe Second Crusade on God's behalf

T IM E L I N E988Al-Azhar university is founded in Egypt

994 Muslims defeat Byzantine army nearSyria

1000-1099 Ibn Sina, Al-Biruni (d. 1048), etal write on Mathematics and Astronomy

1008 Ibn Yunus constructs accurate astro-nomical and mathematical tables

1008 Ibn Al-Haytham develops parabolicmirrors

1030 Britain extracts treaty of close relationswith Iraq by a pro-British ruling leadership

1037 Ibn Sina produces medical textbookwhich remains the main medical guide forEurope for five centuries

1040 Hasan ibn al-Haitham establishes sci-ence of Optics, links Algebra with Geometry

1048 Abu Raihan al-Biruni establishes cir-cumference of earth

1050Muslims evacuate Provence

1050-1059 Muslims introduce the decimalsystem in Spain

1067 Nizam Al-Mulk establishes the firstcolleges and universities in Baghdad andNishapur

1070-1089 Al-Zarqali suggests that the or-bits of the planets are ellipses, precedingKepler by centuries

1076 Ibn Haiyan, Hispano Muslim historianwho wrote 60-volume history of Spain, dies

1081-1085 King Al Mu'taman solves Ceva'stheorem

1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo,Spain

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Pray for peace in Afghanistan, Bosnia,Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine, Philippines, andthe Sudan.

Dedicated in loving memory to ShamimAkhtar who died July 2, 1990, in Islama-bad, Pakistan.

TWF recognizes Hasan Al-Bana theEgypt�s great, Islamic scholar

1191 Crusaders occupy the port ofPalestine

1191 Saladin is defeated by King Ri-chard of England

1192 Third Crusaders extract con-cession from Muslims

1192 King Richard ends Third Cru-sade

1198 Pope Innocent III beginsFourth Crusade to reoccupy Jerusa-lem

1199 Qutb Ud Din Aibak, founder ofthe Slave Dynasty, builds the 238foot tall Qutb Minar in Delhi

1200-1500 Islam spread through In-donesia�s 3000 islands by Muslimtraders

1202 Leonardo Fibonacci, who stud-ied in Algeria, publishes the first Eu-ropean book to use "0" and Fibonac-ci's Sequence

1207-1273 Jalaluddin Rumi produ-ces the 26,000-verse Mathna-wi�becomes best selling poet inU.S. in late 20th century

1217 Pope Innocent III proclaimsFifth Crusade

1217 Fifth Crusaders occupy Bai-sam in Palestine

1218 Fifth Crusaders besiege Egypt

1218 The Papal Legate Cardinal Pe-laguis leads the siege of Egypt

1220 Genghis Khan occupies Bu-khara, part of Khwarizm empire.

T IM E L I N E1147 English and Flemish Crusaders join thesecond Crusade against Muslims

1147 Emir of Syria defeats the Christians.

1148 French Crusaders are defeated by theSeljuk Turks, some Crusaders convert to Is-lam

1153 Third Crusade begins after King Bald-win III of Jerusalem captures Ascalon, Pal-estine

1158 King Baldwin III of Jerusalem defeatsthe Muslims

1158 Inspired by Islamic learning and sci-ence, University of Bologna is founded inItaly

1168 King Almaric of Jerusalem invadesEgypt

1168 Inspired by Islamic learning, Universi-ty of Oxford set up in England

1170-1179 Gerard of Cremona translatesnearly a hundred works, including by al-Kindi, Al-Razi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina

1176 Byzantine Emperor I Connenus is de-feated by Muslims

1179 Saladin defeats Baldwin of Jerusalem

1187 Saladin enters Jerusalem, no Christianskilled in revenge for 1099 massacre

1187 Pope Gregory III proclaims the ThirdCrusade to occupy Al-Quds

1189 King Richard of England proceeds tojoin Third Crusade

1190 Byzantine Emperor Isaac II permitsEmperor Fredreca and his German Crusadersto invade Turkey

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Dedicated in loving memory to SyedGhulam Ghous who died in Hyderabad,India.

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Pray for the safety of the Muslim minorityin India.

1257 Berek Khan, first Mongol rulerto accept Islam, rules parts of Russiaand Eastern Europe

1258 Halagu Khan defeats the Ab-basid Caliph Al-Mutasim

1258 The last Abbasid Caliph andhis family put to death by the Mon-gols

1258 Mongols invade�16 millionmassacred in Iraq and Persia alone

1259 Halagu Khan invades Syria

1260 Syria occupied by the Mon-gols, extinguishing the Ayyubid Sul-tanate

1260Muslims liberate Syria

1260 Islam spreads to the interior ofChina, Muslim astronomers contrib-ute to construction of Shensi observ-atory

1267 First Muslim state of SamudraPasai in Indonesia

1268Muslims liberate Jerusalem

1270 Muslims liberate Tripoli fromCrusaders

1270 Charles of Anjou, leader ofEight Crusade, makes a peace treatywith Emir of Tunis

1270 Eighth Crusaders destroyed bya storm at Trapani, Sicily

1271 Edward Plantaganet, son ofKing Henry III of England, occupiesAcre, Palestine

1273 King Mohammad II of Grena-da inks a defense treaty with Moroc-co

T IM E L I N E1221 Dameitta, Egypt is liberated by Mus-lims

1221 Fifth Crusaders are defeated by Mus-lims

1222 Influenced by the Muslims, the Uni-versity of Padua is founded in Italy

1227Al Mamun declares himself the ruler ofSpain

1228 Roman Emperor Fredrich II begins theSixth Crusade to occupy Palestine

1236-1258 Baghdad destroyed by Mongols;Cordova, Valencia, and Seville fall to Chris-tian armies

1236-1258 Muslim civilization declines inthe West

1239 Muslims defeat the Crusaders at Gaza ,Palestine

1240 Sixth Crusade ends

1241Mongols occupy Lahore in Pakistan

1244 Muslims liberate Ascalon city of Jeru-salem kingdom

1248 King Lois IX of France sails on theSeventh Crusade, invades Egypt

1249 King Louis of France occupies Dam-ietta, Egypt

1250 King Louis of France is defeated byEgyptians

1250 King Louis of France surrenders Dam-ietta, Egypt as part of the price for his re-lease

1250 King Alfonso X of Castile orders thecompilation of astronomical tables basedmostly on Islamic learning

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1421 Chinese Muslim Zheng He'sfleet sails with 28,000 sailors on 300ships, the longest 400 feet,"discovers America"

1453 Mehmed the "Conqueror" cap-tures Constantinople and subduesByzantines

1473 Latin translation of Ibn Sina'sCanon of Medicine is printed at Mi-lan

1492 Grenada, the last Muslim cityin Spain, occupied by Christians

1492 Muslims and Jews in Spainface conversion, death or expulsionby Christians

1492 Christopher Columbus arrivesin America, finds people who looklike Moors

1500 Forced, mass conversion ofMuslims by King Ferdinand of Ara-gon triggers revolt; more than onemillion volumes of Muslim workson Science, Philosophy, Cultureburnt in Vivarrambla

1500-1800 10 to 20 million Africansenslaved, 100 to 200 million killedduring capture�estimated 20%Muslims

1500-1800 Millions of slavesbrought to U.S., forced into Christi-anity�estimated 20% Muslims

1502 Vasco da Gama, "Knight of theOrder of Christ," threatenes to burnKilwa (Tanzania)

1502 Christian forces occupy Turk-ish Sanata Maura

1503 Christian forces conclude apeace treaty with Turkey

T IM E L I N E1273 Shams Al-Din Umar becomes Gover-nor of Yunan, China; Ibn Yarqub becomesPrime Minister

1282 Abaqu, Ilkhan of Persia, Tekudar em-braces Islam, names himself Sultan Ahmed

1282 Ahmed, Muslim finance minister ofChinese emperor Kublai Khan, is assassinat-ed

1284 Tekudar, Sultan Ahmed is murdered inanti-Muslim revolt in Iran

1287 Muslims liberate the Syrian city ofLatlakeih

1299 Arabic numerals are banned in Flor-ence, Italy

1308-1312 Mali Sultan Abu Bakri exploresGulf of Mexico and American interior viaMississioppi river

1325-1354 Ibn Battuta of Tangiers travels75,000 miles through India, Ceylon, China,and the Orient

1387 Tamerlane destroys Isfahan, Persia

1394 Tammerlane defeats the Duke of Mos-cow

1396 Indpendent Sultanate of Gujarat found-ed in India

1398 Tamerlane sacks the city of Delhi inMuslim India

1400 Sultanate of Malacca founded in Ma-laysia

1401 Tamerlane sacks the city of Damascus,Syria

1401 Tamerlane destroys Baghdad

1402 Tamerlane defeats the Ottoman Turks

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"The ink of the scholar is more holythan the blood of the martyr."

Prepare yourself for interfaith discussion.Read "The Cross & the Crescent" by GeraldDirks.

"One learned man is harder on thedevil than a thousand ignorant wor-shippers."

1699 Turkey, defeated by East Euro-peans, signs Treat of Karlowitz, Ot-toman empire begins decline

1700 Turkish Azo is occupied byChristian forces

1700 Turkish Azo is occupied byChristian forces

1705 Muslim Tatars revolt againstRussians

1716 Austria defeats Turkey, losesHungary

1736 Russia, supported by Romans,invades Turkey

1748 Turkey and Russia sign a Treatof Neutrality

1750-1850 British force India togrow opium for sale to China caus-ing famine in India, millions die

1757 British victory in the battle ofPlassey signals end of Muslim rulein India

1759 Qing dynasty of China occu-pies Muslim Eastern Turkestan(present Xinjiang)

1774 Defeated by Russia, the Otto-mans lose Crimea�Tsar recognisedas protector of Christians

1775 Turkish Bukovina is occupiedby Christian forces

1798 Napoleon Bonaparte defeatsthe Mamlukes of Egypt

1816 Britain hands over Java, Indo-nesia, to the United Netherlands

1821 Greeks launch war of inde-pendence against Ottoman Turks

T IM E L I N E1505 Portugal occupies Muslim port of Ago-lis on the Atlantic coast

1511 Portuguese conquer Malacca, presentMalaysia.

1511-1947 Indonesia suffers brutal colonialrule and expolitation

1518 Ottoman rule established in Algeria,Spanish driven out

1521 Christian Spaniards arrive in the Phil-ippines, for next 350 years Muslims subject-ed to genocide, and forced conversion

1532 Germany and Austria form a unitedfront against Turkey

1550 Sinan builds the Sulaymaniye Mosquein Istanbul

1562 Rome and Turkey sign eight-year truce

1570 Christian coalition is formed againstTurkey

1572 Moriscos (Baptized Muslims) kept un-der surveillance

1625 Sultanate of Bantam founded in Java-Sumatra

1631-1647 Emperor Shah Jahan builds theTaj Mahal in memory of his wife MumtazMahal

1674 Muslim Poland is occupied by Christi-an forces

1675-1699 Queens Nurul Alam, Inayat Za-kiya, and Kamalah rule Indonesia

1684 United Front is formed by Austria, Po-land and Venice against Turkey

1688 Muslim Bosnia, Serbia, Wallachia andBucharest are occupied by Christian forces

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"Riches are not from an abundanceof worldly goods, but from a content-ed mind."

"Reflect upon God�s creation but notupon His nature or else you will per-ish."


"He who wishes to enter paradise atthe best door must please his motherand father."

1883 Indonesia's Krakatao volcanoerupts, 36,000 killed

1885 Britain occupies Niger Riverregion of West Africa

1885 Germany occupies North NewGuinea

1889 U.S., Britain and Germany oc-cupy Samoa

1890 Britain occupies Uganda

1893 French occupy Benin

1901 Moroccan Frontier Policecome under French control

1903 Half of the world's oil pumpedfrom Muslim Baku, present Azerbai-jan

1907 France bombards Morocco

1908 Austria occupies Bosnia Her-zegovinia

1911 Italy invades Libya, claims itas the fourth shore of Italy

1912 Serbia defeats Turkey in FirstBalkan War

1912 Treaty of Lausanne betweenTurkey and Italy, Turkey hands Lib-ya over to Italy

1913 Turkey becomes a party inSecond Balkan War

1914 Muslims in Palawan, Sulu, andMindanao defeated by the U.S.,Muslim king forced to abdicate

1914 Turkey declares war againstBritain, Britain annexes Cyprus

1914 British occupy Egypt

T IM E L I N E1829 Abd Rahman Ibrahima, a West Africanprince, sold into slavery, petitions U.S. Pres-ident Adams, returns to Africa

1830 France invades and occupies Algeriafollowing non-payment of French debts toAlgerian banks

1843 Gambia is grabbed from Sierra Leonneby Britain

1848 Muslims defeated (but not subdued) bySpaniards in Palawan, Sulu, and Mindanao

1858 Motenegro is taken from the OttomanMuslims

1864 Russia annexes Muslim Turkestan,parts now in Xinjiang, China

1869 Suez canal inaugurated, internationaltrade booms

1873 Dutch attack Aceh, the first Islamicstate in Indonesia

1875 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founds MuslimAnglo-Oriental College, became AligarhMuslim University in 1920

1875 Britain buys 176,602 shares of SuezCanal to create a monopoly

1877-1938 Muhammad Iqbal combines Eu-ropean thinking with Islamic beliefs, his vi-sion leads to creation of Pakistan

1881 France occupies Tunisia

1881 Mohammad Ahmad of Sudan, theMahdi, leads war of liberation against theBritish

1882 Urabi revolt against the king, and itsBritish collaborators in Egypt, put down

1882 France occupies Eritria

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"No man is a true believer unless hedesires for his brother that which hedesires for himself."

TWF recognizes the fate of Muslims inthe Philippines who were forced to convertto Christianity during the Spanish con-quest.

General Zia ul Haq, President of Paki-stan, and U.S. ambassador die in planecrash�a sabotage not investigated by theFBI.

"When the bier of anyone passes byyou, whether Jew, Christian, or Mus-lim, rise to your feet."

1922 British occupation of Egyptends

1922 Mustufa Kamal Pasha abol-ishes Sultanate, Turkey is declared aRepublic in 1923

1923 Turko-Afghan Treaty

1923 Egypt adopts parliamentarysystem

1923 Italy annexes Libya followingpeace treaty between Kamal Ataturkand allied powers

1924Albania proclaims Republic

1924 Turkey abolished Caliphateand Islamic courts

1925 France bombards Syria

1926 Albanian ethnic-cleansing islegitimized by the League of Na-tions

1926 Treaty of Mosul grants 95% ofIraq oil to Britain, America, andFrance

1927Albania forges defense alliancewith Italy

1927 The first elected parliament ofIraq opens in Baghdad

1930 Britain recognizes Iraq's inde-pendence, Turkey joins League ofNations

1930 Wallace D. Fard preaches amix of Islam and mysticism, con-verts Elijah Poole aka Elijah Mu-hammad

1930 Italian occupiers send 125,000Libyans to concentration camps indesert, two-thirds perish

T IM E L I N E1914Ango-Indian troops occupy Basra, Iraq

1914 WWI: Turkey allies with Germanyfights Russia, Allies defeated in 1918

1915 France occupies Gabon

1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement partitionsAsian Turkey between Britain and France

1917 Balfour Declaration grants Palestine tothe Jews

1918 Britain occupies Syria after it getsMandate from League of Nations

1919 Egyptian intifadah against Britain

1919Albanians build masjid in Maine

1920 Pro British Amir Faisal is proclaimedKing of Syria

1920 San Remo Conference in Italy grantsMandate over Palestine to Britain

1920 British occupation of Iraq legitimizedby the Paris Peace Conference

1920 Faisal is expelled from Damascus byFrench forces

1920 Britain gives conditional consent forEgypt's independence

1920 France and Britain occupy Syria andPalestine

1921 Faisal is proclaimed King of Iraq byoccupying Britain

1921 Albania sliced into three territories byUSA, Britain, and France

1922 Occupation of Togo ,Cameroon, Tanza-nia, and Palestine legitimized by the Leagueof Nations

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Dedicated in loving memory to AnwaryBegum who died September 15, 1997, inIslamabad, Pakistan.

TWF recognizes the great work of SyedMaudoudi (September 25, 1903 � Septem-ber 22, 1979).

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1946 Syria becomes a Republic

1947 Egypt breaks diplomatic rela-tions with Britain

1947 60 Palestinians, mostly womenand children, murdered by Jews inShaikh village massacre

1947 India is partitioned, I millionkilled, 10 million become refugees

1947 Malcolm Little joins Nation ofIslam, becomes Malcolm X

1948 Israelis bomb Semiramis Ho-tel, Jerusalem, kill scores of Mus-lims and Christians

1948 Israelis massacre 150 Palesti-nians at Dair Yasin

1948 200 Palestinian villagers killednear Haifa to make way for a park-ing lot and cooperative farm

1948 Occupying British hand overPalestine to European Jews

1948 Israeli soldiers kill 80 Palesti-nians in a Dahmash mosque

1948 Israeli army kills 100 Palesti-nians in village of Dawayama

1948 Jewish militants attack and kill82 villagers at Houla in South Leba-non

1948 The Nakba�million Palestini-ans deported by Israel, civiliansmassacred, hundreds of villagesrazed

1949 Hassan Al Banna, founder ofMuslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is as-sassinated

T IM E L I N E1931 Omar Al Mukhtar, the "Lion of theDesert," hanged by Italian occupation forces

1931 First oil well drilled in Bahrain

1932 Elijah Muhammad becomes chief min-ister of the Nation of Islam

1933 Saudi Arabia grants Socal explorationrights to 360,000 suare miles for 60 years

1934 Occupying French dismiss Syrian cabi-net, suspend parliament

1935 Egypt demands restoration of 1923constitution

1940 Italy uses Albanian soil to attackGreece

1940 U.S. establishes Sultanate in Sulu,Philippines

1941 Anti-British Government collapses inIraq

1944 Stalin dissolves Chechen-Ingush re-public, deports Chechen-Ingush, 25% die inexile

1944 Stalin sends 75% of Chechen popula-tion to concentration camps in Siberia

1945Arab League is founded in Cairo

1945 Egypt demands the end of the BritishMilitary presence in Egypt

1946 Intifadah forces Britain and France towithdraw their troops from Lebanon

1946 USSR promises to withdraw its forcesfrom Iran

1946 U.S. grants independence to the Philli-pines, includes Muslim dominated and semi-autonomous southern Philippines

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SAT: Do your masajids have courses tohelp students prepare for the ScholasticAptitude Test?

TWF recognizes American newspaper"The Muslim Observer � call for a freecopy from 248-426-7777.

TWF recognizes "The Washington Reporton Middle East Affairs" � a champion forjust U.S. foreign policies.

1958 Ghana and Guinea join to formUnion of West African States

1959 Iraq withdraws from the anti-Muslim Baghdad Pact

1960 Somaliland becomes part ofSomalia

1960 France agrees to independencefor Chad

1960 India and Pakistan sign treatyon "Canal Waters Dispute"

1961 Margaret Marcus, a New YorkJewess, embraces and defends Islam

1961 Iraq government declares Ku-wait as its integral part

1961 USSR breaks relations withAlbania

1962 Algerians get the right of self-determination

1963 Malacca, Penang, Singapore,Sarawak and Sabah form MalaysianFederation, Singapore withdraws in1965

1964 First Arab Summit held atCairo, prompted by Israel's Jordonriver diversion scheme

1965 One million Indonesians die inU.S. backed ouster of President Su-karno of Indonesia

1965Malcolm X, after pilgrimage toMecca, preaches true Islam, and isassassinated

1966 Jakarta Agreement ends threatof war between Indonesia and Ma-laysia

T IM E L I N E1949 Indonesian Republic established,named United States of Indonesia

1951 Iran nationalizes its oil industry

1951 Libya gains independenece under KingMuhammad Idris I

1952 UN permits French occupation of Tu-nisia

1952 Egypt's British puppet ruler over-thrown by Egyptian nationalists

1953 Monarchy is abolished in Egypt byEgyptian nationalists

1953 Western powers overthrow nationalistMossadeq, install the Shah of Iran

1954 Netherlands-Indonesian Union is dis-solved

1956 60 Palestinians killed by Israeli occu-pation forces in Gaza City

1956 Egypt nationalizes Suez canal endingWestern monopoly

1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal

1956 Indonesia repudiates its debt to theNetherlands

1956 Britain and France join Israel to attackEgypt

1956 275 Palestinians murdered at Khan Yu-nus refugee camp by Israeli army.

1958 Iraq and Jordan formArab Federation

1958 Iraq declares Republic, ousts pro-Brit-ish ruler

1958 U.S. opposes Iraq revolution, sendsforces to region

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"That which is lawful is clear, andthat which is unlawful likewise, butthere are certain doubtful things be-tween the two from which it is best toabstain."

1979 Islamic revolution in Iran

1980-1988 375,000 Iraqi and 1 mil-lion Iranian soldiers killed in Iran-Iraq war�300,000 Iranian civiliansdie, 500,000 injured

1981 Israel attacks and destroysIraq's Osirak Nuclear Research reac-tor under construction near Baghdad

1982 Israel allied Lebanese militiakills 3500 Palestinians in Sabra andShatila refugee camps

1982 1000-2000 unarmed Lebaneseand Palestinian civilians massacredat Sabra and Shatila�Ariel Sharonimplicated

1984 France agrees to withdraw itsforces from Chad

1986 U.S. bombs Libya killing 101people including Ghaddafi's adopteddaughter

1986 US bombs Libya, 37 peopleincluding Ghaddafi's daughter killed

1986 Ismail Faruqi, poineer in inter-religious dialog, and his wife, mur-dered in U.S.

1987 First Intifadah begins, 20,000Palestinians killed or injured

1988 290 passengers and the crew ofan Iran Air Airbus shot down by theUSS Vincennes.

1988 Iran and Iraq announce cease-fire under UN aegis

1988 Chad and Libya establish dip-lomatic relations

1990 Israeli army kills 25 Palestini-an worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque

T IM E L I N E1967 Israel occupies Egyptian, Syrian, andJordanian territory

1967 Israeli fighter jets destroy EgyptianAir Force in pre-emptive strike

1967 Last British troops leave Aden

1968Albania quits Warsaw Pact countries

1968 Israel bombs Iraqi bases

1970 Libya nationalizes oil industry, endsAmerican oil monopoly

1970-2000 Fighting in Mindanao claimsmore than 120,000 lives

1971 Idi Amin comes to power in Uganda

1963 Syria, Libya, and Egypt agree to forma Federation

1973 Israel shoots down Libyan Arab Air-lines airplane

1973War begins between Israel and its Arabneighbors

1973 Egypt and Syria attempt to liberate Si-nai and Golan Heights from Israel

1974 Turkey invades Cyprus to protect Turk-ish population

1975 Elijah Muhammad dies, son WallaceMuhammad chosen to lead, moves towardtrue Islam

1975 Louis Farrakhan resurrects Nation ofIslam

1978 Israel invades and occupies South Leb-anon

1979 Abdus Salam receives Nobel Prize inphysics

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"That person is nearest to God, whopardons . . . him who would have in-jured him."


"Yield obedience to my successor al-though he may be an Abyssinianslave."

1995 "The Truth About Islam" (seewww.twf.org) displayed in ForeignAffairs

1996 Albania allies with Chinaagainst USSR

1996 Libya inaugurates second stageof Great Man-Made River projectwhich U.S. threatened to nuke

1997 Global Microcredit Summithonors Dr. Muhammad Yunus forlaunching micro-credit program

1998 India tests nuclear bomb, pro-gram led by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

1998 Pakistan tests nuclear bomb,program led by Said Kadyr Khan

1998 "The Truth About Islam" (seewww.twf.org) displayed in Washing-ton, DC Metro rail stations

1998 U.S. launches missile attack ona Sudanese pharmaceutical plant al-leging it to be a chemical factory

1998 U.S. cruise missiles destroy ElShifa factory (50% of medicine pro-ducing capability) in Sudan

1999 Unarmed Amadou Diallo, anAfrican Muslim, shot 41 times byNew York City police who are ac-quitted

1999 More than 7,000 dead and33,000 injured by 20ft-high tidalwave in Turkey

2000 Second Intifadah begins, pro-voked by Ariel Sharon's visit to Al-Aqsa

2000 Christians in Maluku, Indone-sia, slaughter 3000 Muslims

T IM E L I N E1991 U.S. led forces kill 200,000 in GulfWar, destroy $100 billion property, DU mu-nitions cause cancer, birth defects

1991 U.S. planes bomb air raid shelter inBaghdad killing over 300 people

1992 U.S. Senate begins day with first everMuslim prayer offered by Imam W. D. Mu-hammad

1992 Communist rule ends in Albania

1992-2002 1.5 million Iraqis die as a resultof U.S. backed UN sanctions, millions mal-nourished, thousands born deformed

1992-1995 More than 1 million Bosniansdisplaced, at least 1 million more living asrefugees in 25 countries

1992-1995 More than 1,400 mosques de-stroyed by Serbs and Croats

1992 Babri masjid in Ayodhya destroyed, ri-oters kill 2,000 Muslims

1993-2001 Thousands die as a result of U.S.-backed rebels and sanctions on Sudan

1994 Fanatic Jew massacres 25 Palestinianspraying in Hebron mosque

1994-1996 80,000 die, 240,000 wounded inChechen war for independence

1994-1996 Russians kill over 100,000 Che-chens, place 17 million landmines in chech-nya

1995 7500 Muslims massacred by Christiansin Sebrenica

1995 "The Truth About Islam" (seewww.twf.org) displayed in WashingtonTimes during Million Man March

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T IM E L I N E2000 Louis Farrakan declaresallegiance to Warith (Wallace)Deen Muhammad

2001 "The Truth About Islam"(see www.twf.org) displayed inTeacher Magazine sent to100,000 schools

2002 Israel storms Gaza with150 tanks, military vehicles,backed by Apache planes

2002 President Bush, Jr. labelsIran, Iraq, and North Korea asAxis of Evil

2002 U.S. attack on Afghani-stan kills 5,000 civilians, mil-lions become refugees, DUminitions cause cancers, birthdefects

2002 Gujarat riots�5,000 Mus-lims killed, 50,000 made home-less, hundreds of mosques, ho-tels, shops, villages destroyed

2003 U.S. launches illegal at-tack on Iraq, kills 37,000 civil-ians, begins occupation

2003 U.S. occupation forcescancel election in Najaf, Iraq

2003 The newly built GrandMosque of Granada opens, firstMasjid built in Spain since 1492

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