MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Mehmed II takes the city after 53 days of siege; eleven centuries of Byzantium end and Istanbul begins.
Three thousand meet the Byzantine frontier army east of the Jordan; the three appointed commanders fall one after another.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil founds the mosque whose horseshoe arcades become the signature of the Muslim West.