MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Three hundred and thirteen meet Quraysh at the wells of Badr — the first pitched battle of Islam, remembered as Yawm al-Furqān.
In the cave of Ḥirāʾ the first verses descend: "Recite, in the name of your Lord who created."
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād breaks the Visigothic army and King Roderic falls; al-Andalus opens in a single Ramaḍān.
Al-Manṣūr breaks ground on the Round City between the rivers — capital of the ʿAbbāsids and, soon, of the world’s learning.