MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Quṭuz and Baybars halt the Mongol advance in Galilee — the first defeat the Mongol empire could not avenge.
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.
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ plants the tent-city by the Babylon fortress — the seed of what will become Cairo.