7 Shawwāl 169 AH

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7 Shawwāl 169 AH · ≈ Tuesday 11 April 786

Quraysh returns in force; victory slips away when the archers leave the hill, and Ḥamzah is among the seventy martyrs.

7 Shawwāl 3 AH≈ 23 Mar 625DayTraditionalProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

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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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