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{{Timeline of Muslim history}}
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This '''timeline of Islamic history''' relates the [[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]] and [[Islamic calendar]]s in the [[history of Islam]]. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started,<ref name="Watt2003">{{cite book |last=Watt |first=William Montgomery |author-link=W. Montgomery Watt |title=Islam and the Integration of Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-17587-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC&pg=PA5 5] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114062742/https://books.google.com/books?id=AQUZ6BGyohQC |archive-date=2017-01-14 }}</ref> though not by [[Muslim]]s.<ref name="Esposito1998">{{cite book |last=Esposito |first=John |title= Islam: The Straight Path (3rd ed.) |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511234-4 |pages=9, 12}}</ref><ref name="Esposito2002b">Esposito (2002b), pp. 4–5.</ref><ref name="Peters2003">{{cite book |last=Peters |first=F.E. |title=Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians |year=2003 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-11553-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/islamguideforjew00fepe/page/9 9] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/islamguideforjew00fepe/page/9 }}</ref>

==Broad periods (Gregorian and Islamic dates)==
;[[Muhammad]] and the [[Rashidun Caliphate|Rashidun Caliphs]]
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (6th century)|6th century]] [[Common Era|CE]] (23 [[Before Hegira|BH]] – 13 [[Before Hegira|BH]])

;[[Timeline of early Islamic history]], the [[Umayyad Caliphate]], the [[Abbasid Caliphate]] and its fragmentation, the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the [[Delhi Sultanate]]
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (7th century)|7th century]] CE (23 [[Before Hegira|BH]] – 81 [[Anno hegirae|AH]])
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (8th century)|8th century]] CE (81 AH – 184 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (9th century)|9th century]] CE (184 AH – 288 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (10th century)|10th century]] CE (288 AH – 391 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (11th century)|11th century]] CE (391 AH – 494 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (12th century)|12th century]] CE (494 AH – 597 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (13th century)|13th century]] CE (597 AH – 700 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (14th century)|14th century]] CE (700 AH – 803 AH)

;Regional empires and dynasties ([[Ottoman Empire]], [[Safavid Empire]], [[Mughal Empire]])
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (15th century)|15th century]] CE (803 AH – 906 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (16th century)|16th century]] CE (906 AH – 1009 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (17th century)|17th century]] CE (1009 AH – 1112 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (18th century)|18th century]] CE (1112 AH – 1215 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (19th century)|19th century]] CE (1215 AH – 1318 AH)

;Final period of [[colonialism]] and time of postcolonial [[nation-state]]s
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (20th century)|20th century]] CE (1318 AH – 1421 AH)
* [[Timeline of the history of Islam (21st century)|21st century]] CE (1421 AH – present)

==Islamic centuries to Gregorian==
{{Main|Islamic calendar}}

; Islamic centuries to corresponding Gregorian years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urducalendar.com/converter.php|title=URDU CALENDAR – ISLAMIC – GREGORIAN|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121225115503/http://www.urducalendar.com/converter.php|archive-date=2012-12-25}}</ref>
* 1st century AH (622 – 719 [[Common Era|CE]])
* 2nd century AH (719 – 816)
* 3rd century AH (816 – 913)
* 4th century AH (913 – 1009)
* 5th century AH (1009 – 1106)
* 6th century AH (1106 – 1203)
* 7th century AH (1203 – 1299)
* 8th century AH (1299 – 1397)
* 9th century AH (1397 – 1495)
* 10th century AH (1495 – 1591)
* 11th century AH (1591 – 1688)
* 12th century AH (1688 – 1785)
* 13th century AH (1785 – 1883)
* 14th century AH (1883 – 1980)
* 15th century AH (1980 –  2077)

== See also ==

* [[Timeline of science and engineering in the Muslim world]]
* [[History of Islam]]
* [[Timeline of Jerusalem]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329142418/http://www.happy-books.co.uk/muhammad-ibn-abdullah-lineage-and-family-tree/timeline-of-islamic-caliphate-including-all-muslim-rulers-and-khilafah-from-muhammad-to-khulafaa-rashidah-and-banu-umayyah-abbas-and-ottoman-empire.php Graphical Timeline of Islamic Rulers/Caliphate]

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