26 Shawwāl 169 AH

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26 Shawwāl 169 AH · ≈ Sunday 30 April 786

The author of the Tārīkh and the great Tafsīr — the chronicle this database leans on — dies in Baghdad at 85.

26 Shawwāl 310 AH16 Feb 923DayAttestedAbbasid · Iraq · Death

Month-precise — Spanning this month:

A confederacy of ten thousand besieges Madinah and breaks against a ditch, a windstorm, and three weeks of failure.

Shawwāl 5 AH≈ Mar 627MonthAttestedProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

YEAR-PRECISE — THIS YEAR IN 169 AH

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dākhil founds the mosque whose horseshoe arcades become the signature of the Muslim West.

169 AH≈ 786 CEYearTraditionalAndalusi · al-Andalus · Founding

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