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]]> 2007-05-14 05:31:49.50517+00:00 http://www.platial.com/post/1477239 Sayyidina Uthman, who sent an official Muslim envoy to Vietnam and Tang Dynasty China in 650.

There had been earlier contacts with Muslim traders en route to China.

Islam mainly grew in Vietnam through the influence of the Malay people.

After the 1975 establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, some of the 55,000 Muslim Chams emigrated to Malaysia. 1,750 were also accepted as immigrants by Yemen; most settled in Ta'izz. Those who remained did not suffer violent persecution, although their mosques were closed by the government.

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]]> 2007-05-14 05:20:51.024162+00:00 http://www.platial.com/post/1477152 6th century BCE: Phoenician ports of Libya are conquered by Carthage. 5th century BCE: Rise of the Garamantian Empire in today's Fezzan. 107 BCE: Northwestern Libya is conquered by Rome, and comes under administration of Africa Proconsularis which has its administrative centre around Carthage. The region becomes later a province of its own, under the name of Tripolitania. 74 BCE: Cyrenaica is conquered by Rome. Further Roman advances south is halted by the Garamantians. The region is later named Libya, where today's northeastern Libya is called Libya Superior, while today's northwestern Egypt is called Libya Inferior. 455 CE: Vandals take possession of Libya. 643: Amr Ibnu l-As conquers northeastern Libya, known as Barka, and the region becomes part of the new Muslim Empire governed from Madina in today's Saudi Arabia. (source: Encyclopedia of the Orient)

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The historic town of Timbuktu is located at the precise point where the Niger flows northward into the southern edge of the desert. As a result of its unique geographical position, Timbuktu has been a natural meeting point of Songhai, Wangara,Fulani, Tuareg and Arabs. According to the inhabitants of Timbuku, gold came from the south, the salt from the north and the Divine knowledge, from Timbuktu.

By the 12th century, Timbuktu became a celebrated center of Islamic learning and a commercial establishment. Timbuktu had three universities and 180 Quranic schools. These universities were the Sankore University, Jingaray Ber University and Sidi Yahya University. This was the golden age of Africa. Books were not only written in Timbuktu, but they were also imported and copied there. There was an advanced local book copying industry in the city.

The universities and private libraries contained unparalleled scholarly works. The famous scholar of Timbuktu Ahmad Baba who was among those forcibly exiled in Morocco claimed that his library of 1600 books had been plundered, and that his library, according to him, was one of the smaller in the city.



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Contains the third holiest site in Islam - Al-Aqsa.

Taken by Khalifah Umar after reinforcing the Muslim army with 4000 horses. A treaty of capitulation was signed with the Patriarch (Sophronius) which ended the siege.

At that time, there were 12,000 Greeks and 50,000 natives in the city. The Greeks were ordered to leave in 3 days and the natives made to pay tributes of 5 dinars per rich person, 4 dinars for middle class and 3 dinars for the lower classes. The aged and children were exempted.

Umar's first object upon entering the city was to find the Sacred Rock (as-Sakhrah), the site to which Muhammad (pbuh) was carried on the night of Miraj.

He was directed to the Church of the Resurrection bythe Patriarch, who said "this is the Mosque of David". But Umar refused to accept it, as he said, "the Apostle of Allah (Muhammad) described the place to me, and it was not like this." The went to every church in the city until they came to a gate (now called Babul Muhammad i.e. Gate of Muhammad), and creeping on his knees to the central sewer and standing up, Umar declared "by Him in whose Hand is my life, this is the place which the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) described to us." He then ordered a mosque (Masjidul Aqsa) to be built there.

The city fell to the Franks in AH 491, amidst massive killing of Muslims. In a space of 7 days, 70,000 Muslims were killed in Al-Aqsa alone.

Salaahud-din (Saladin) re-captured the city later on.

Jerusalem Timeline;
AD 33 - Said crucifixion, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem.
AD 43 - St. Paul's first visit to Jerusalem after his conversion to Christianity.
AD 69 - Jerusalem taken by Titus (Greece).
AD 136 - City named Aelia Capitolina by Emperor Hadrain.
AD 336 - Jerusalem under Christian rule. The Martyrion and the Church of Resurrection build.
AD 614 - City taken by the persians under Chosroes II (Qur'an 30.
AD 621 - Flight of Muhammad (pbuh)
AD 628 - Emperor Haraclius takes Jerusalem.
AD 637 - Patrairch Sophronius surrenders to Khalifah Umar (AS).
AD 820 - City Held by rebel chief Tamum Abu Harb.
AD 969 - Fatimate Khalifah Mu'izz takes city. Church of Holy Sepulchre burnt.
AD 1035 - Pilgrimage of Robert of Normandy.
AD 1054 - Pilgrimage of Lietbert of Cambray.
AD 1065 - Pilgrimage of the German Bishops.
AD 1077 - City pillaged by the army of Malik Shah.
AD 1084 - Turkoman chief Urtok becomes ruler of city. The Christians suffer.
AD 1098 - City retaken by Fatimate Khalifah.
AD 1099 - 40,000 Crusaders take city. 10,000 Muslims slain. Bodfrey of Bouillon made king.
AD 1187 - Retaken by Salaahud-din (Saladin), the Muslim General.
AD 1219 - Ceded to Christians by virtue of a treaty with the Emperor Frederick II.
AD 1239 - Taken by Muslims.
AD 1243 - Again ceded to Christians.
AD 1244 - Christians defeated at Gaza and Jerusalem occupied by Muslims.
AD 1277 - Nominally annexed to the Kingdon of Sicily.
AD 1517 - Becomes part of the Empire of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I.
AD 1542 - Sultan Sulaiman I builds present walls.
AD 1832 - Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt takes city.
AD 1840 - Returned to Sultan of Turkey

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