Historical Events

The Battle of Karbala (680 CE) was a confrontation in which Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was killed with his companions by Umayyad forces near the Euphrates. It became one of the most consequential events in Islamic history, shaping the development of Shia Islam.

Fourteen centuries of Islamic history set out in sequence, from the first revelation in 610 CE to the present: the caliphates and dynasties, the conquests and the losses, the intellectual flowering, and the making of the modern Muslim world.