Introduction: Islam Today

The Beginnings of Islam

A Port in Yemen Today

Bedouins

The Prophet’s Mosque TodayOriginally established c. 622

Muslim-Quraysh Wars

624-630

Muhammad at Badr

Mecca

Great Mosque of Mecca Today

Ka’ba, 2009

Ka’ba, c. 1910

Mecca in 1850

Great Mosque of Mecca17th-c. Turkish Tile

The Ummayad Caliphate

661-750

Great Ummayad Mosque and Treasury

Damascus, Syria, 715

The Abbasid Caliphate

750-1258

Abbasid CaliphateDarker Green: Lost Early On

Abbasid Palace, Baghdad, c. 1200

Mustansiriya MadrasahBaghdad, 1233

Oldest Surviving Minaret in Baghdad, 13th c.

Malwiyya MinaretSamarra, Iraq, 847-61

Mongol Siege of Baghdad, 1258

Mongol Siege of Baghdad

The Rise of the Ottoman Turks

Ottoman Archer

Siege of Constantinople, 14531455 Manuscript

Siege of ConstantinopleJean Chartier, 15th c.

The Entry of Mohamet II into ConstantinopleBenjamin Constant, 1876

Suleiman Mosque, Istanbul

1550-57