Ramadan's history

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This is the 'Ramadan's History' subject; so it basically means I will list you the importan historic events that took place during the 30 days of Ramadan, in the past; distant and near

Notice the following: AH means After Hijra, which is the Hijri calender, while AD is the georgian calender; AD means Anno Domini, which translates to 'In the year of the lord' in medieval latin

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1st of Ramadan


a) 2 AH (624 AD): is the first Ramadan Muslims fast; it's said that fasting was enforced a month earlier in Shaban


b) 114 AH (732 AD): Battle of Tours in the reign of Ummayad caliph Hisham bin Abdul Malik between Abdul Rahman Al Ghafigi Charles Martel. Muslims' defeat in this battle resulted in their loss of final attempt to inject Islam in the western world, and it was named Balat Al Shuhada because of its massive Muslim casualties

c) 1286 AH (1869 AD): Shakaib Arsalan was born. He was a major icon in advocating Arabic nationalism and was a strong opponent of occupation. He was the first to call for the establishment of the Arab League, an organization of the 22 Arabic states that was established 77 years later on 1946 AD. He also advocated the proposition that the survival of the Ottoman Empire was the only guarantee against the division of the ummah and its occupation by the European imperial powers



2nd of Ramadan


AH 82 (624 AD): Muslim general Al Hassan ibn Al Numan conquers the whole of the Moroccan lands against the Berbers


AH 132 (750 AD): Abdulla Abu Al Abbas seizes Damascus, in turn establishing the Abbasid caliphate over the Umayyad caliphate


AH 732 (1332 AD): Ibn Khaldoun is born. He was a famous historian, scholar, theologian, and statesman born in North Africa in present-day Tunisia. He is considered the forerunner of several social scientific disciplines: demography, cultural history, historiography, the philosophy of history, sociology, and modern economics. He is sometimes considered to be a "father" of these disciplines, or even the social sciences in general, for anticipating many elements of these disciplines centuries before they were founded. He is best known for his Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomenon in Greek), the first volume of his book on universal history, Kitab al-Ibar



3rd of Ramadan



AH 65 (685 AD): Marwan ibn Al Hakam, founder of the second Umayyad dynasty dies. Marwan's short reign was marked by a civil war among the Umayyads as well as a war against Abdullah ibn Zubayr who continued to rule over the Hejaz, Iraq, Egypt and parts of Syria. Marwan was able to win the Umayyad civil war, the result of which was a new Marwanid line of Umayyad caliphs. He was also able to recapture Egypt and Syria from Abdullah, but was not able to completely defeat him


AH 1307 (1890 AD): The Muslim general Rabih az-Zubayr dies. Az-Zubayr established an Islamic kingdom in Chad, but was later taken over by the invading French army


AH 1362 (1943 AD): Italy surrenders to the Allied forces in World War2. Italy became involved in the war after its alliance with Germany in 1940, however after its successive defeats a surrender to the British and American forces was inevitable




4th of Ramadan



1073 AH 1073 (N/A): The Ottoman empire declares war on Germany 56 years after the Sitfaturk treaty that brought a halt to the previous war between the two states; which was sparked due to the Germans building a fortified tower near its border with the Ottoman empire

AD 1032: People of Cordoba convened to elect their leader after they've eliminated their previous Barber leader Al Qassim bin Hammod. The Umayyad Abdul Rahman bin Hisham was elected their caliph after three weeks of none-leadership status


AH 927 (1521 AD): Suleiman the Magnificent conquers Belgrade, a key to central Europe and home to the strongest towers near the Ottoman Empire. Ottomans besieged this city three times in the past, in 1441, 1456 and 1492, but were only able to seize it in Suleiman's reign

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5th of Ramadan


AH 666 (1268 AD): The Mamluk general Baibars conquers Antioch after repelling the Crusaders. This historic victory caused ripples that toppled the Crusader states one by one


AH 1367 (1948 AD): A Zionist commando unit led by Moshe Dayan massacres 426 Palestinians in the city of Lud


AH 1409 (1989 AD): A border crisis between Senegal and Mauritania breaks out; the crisis is attributable to farming interference between the two countries

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6th of Ramadan


AH 223 (838 AD): The Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tasim captures Amorium, after a Muslim woman abused by some Romans called 'Wa Mu'tasima', to which Al-Mu'tasim responded, "Wabayki Ya Ukhtah". The poet Abu Tamam recorded this incident in a wonderful poem


AH 1208 (1794 AD): American President George Washington obtains increased jurisdictions to pour 688,000 $ in order to built a fortified ship that can withstand attacks from the Turk pirates in the Mediterranean Sea


AH 1300 (1882 AD): The Ottoman prime minister Mahommd Nadeem Pasha orders '6th of Ramadan Decisions', which reduced the empire's foreign debts to half; a decision which angered both France and England

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7th of Ramadan



AH 89 (N/A): Mohammed ibn al-Qassim al-Thaqafi invades Sindh, armed with numerous catapults


AH 361 (971 AD): Al-Azhar University opens in the reign of the Fatimid caliphate and remains up until now biggest center in the world for Islamic civilization radiance. The university's mission includes the propagation of Islamic religion and culture. To this end, its Islamic scholars (ulemas) render edicts (fatwas) on disputes submitted to them from all over the Islamic world regarding proper conduct for Muslim individuals or societies


AH 1300 (1882 AD): The naval Ottoman general Taghar Bek seizes control of Sicily after he extricated 7,000 captive Muslims. He then transferred the island to France, which couldn't hold it for long as Spain seized it in the same year

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8th of Ramadan



AH 83 (702): Jafar Al-Sadig is born. He was a polymath: an astronomer, alchemist, Imam, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, writer, philosopher, physician, physicist and scientist. He was also the teacher of the famous chemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), and of Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Sunni Madh'hab


AH 1315 (1898 AD): The female magazine 'Anees Al-Jalees' is issued in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandra Mitadi headed the wide-reaching magazine, which only lasted 10 years


AH 1425 (2004 AD): Cleric Abbas Al-Sisi dies. Al-sisi was one of the prominent advocators of Islam, and a pupil of Hassan Al-Bana, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement

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9th of Ramadan


AH 559 (1144 AD): The Mamluk general Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusaders and captures their leader after retaking the Harem city of Syria


AH 1332 (1914 AD): Germany declares war on Russia. The war caused major poverty and the spread of unemployment, which led to the communist uprising of October in which the Bolshevik seized control of Russia


AH 1426 (2005 AD): The Syrian Minister of Interior Ghazi Kanaan commits suicide in his office three weeks after he was interrogated by the UN team commissioned to investigate the assassination of late Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri. An hour prior to his suicide, Kanaan said to a Lebanese channel that his statements could be his last

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10th of Ramadan



AD 1973: Egypt and Syria claimed victory over Israel in October war (also called Ramadan War); it was Israel's first decisive 'embarrassment' ever since it was established in 1948. The second 'embarrassment' occurred in their war against Hezbollah in 2006


AH 8 (630 AD): Prophet Mohammed-peace be upon him- and his companions conquers Mecca; this incident was named Grand Conquest in Quran because many people embraced Islam, including Abu Sufyan. It also marked bringing down the idols around Kabbah


AH 961 (1554 AD): A great naval war in the Strait of Hormuz between the Ottoman and Portuguese fleets break out for 18 none-stop hours, but ended in a stalemate

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11th of Ramadan



AH 624 (1227): Genghis Khan died. Founder of the Mongol Empire, Khan was one of the cruelest invaders in history and caused unspeakable massacres


AH 764 (1363 AD): Historian Ibn-Shakir Al-Kitbi died. Al-Kitbi was an esteemed historian of his age; some of his writings include: 'Ayoon Al-Tareekh' and 'Fawat Al-Wafyat'


AH 986 (1578 AD): The Ottomans defeat Al-Safawin in the Shamahi battle; Al-Safawin lost 15,000 in this battle. Both parties fought over the control of the Islamic world

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11th of Ramadan



AH 624 (1227): Genghis Khan died. Founder of the Mongol Empire, Khan was one of the cruelest invaders in history and caused unspeakable massacres


AH 764 (1363 AD): Historian Ibn-Shakir Al-Kitbi died. Al-Kitbi was an esteemed historian of his age; some of his writings include: 'Ayoon Al-Tareekh' and 'Fawat Al-Wafyat'


AH 986 (1578 AD): The Ottomans defeat Al-Safawin in the Shamahi battle; Al-Safawin lost 15,000 in this battle. Both parties fought over the control of the Islamic world







12th of Ramadan




AH 32 (N/A): Abbas ibn Abdul Mutalib, uncle of prophet Mohammed-peace be upon him-dies. He was once asked," Are you bigger or Mohammed?", to which he responded, "He is bigger, but I was born before him." e


AH 597(1200 AD): Abu Faraj Al-Jozi dies. He was an esteemed cleric of Arabic and Islamic jurisprudence


AH 1425 (2004 AD): 87 Thai Muslims die at the hands of the security forces, as a result of a demonstration the former organized in the Muslim-majority province of Narathiwat, calling the release of captive Muslims





13th of Ramadan





AH 1332 (1914 AD): First World War breaks out. 30 countries fought in this war and it continued f04211or four years and a half. States parted into two fighting camps: Germany leading Austria, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, against England leading France and America. The war claimed 10 million casualties, with 21 millions injured


AH 597 (1200 AD): Mohammed Ali Pasha dies. Pasha, who established modern Egypt, is considered one of the prominent icons in the modern history of Egypt and Arabia. Pasha focused on education, industry, army, navy and agriculture in hope of establishing a grand Egypt empire. However, the Europeans deemed Pasha 'too dangerous' to their occupational interests in Arabia, and halted his expansionist dreams


AH 1425 (2004 AD): Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat dies. His health suddenly deteriorated and he was flown to France, but they were unable to determine the cause of his downfall. As a result, a conspiracy theory of Arafat been poisoned started to spread

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14th of Ramadan



AH 570 (1176 AD): Saladin captures many cities in Bilad al-Sham, including Baalbek from the hands of the Crusaders


AH 1195 (1781 AD): England acknowledges the independence of United States of American after George Washington's onslaught of wars. A meeting for the declaration of independence was first held in 1776, but England didn't accept it then


AH 1377 (1958 AD): The Arab League convenes on Sudan's request to discuss the disagreement between Iraq and Egypt. The six states that appeared-Egypt, Sudan, KSA, Morocco, Lebanon and Yemen-agreed that the government of Iraq is a threat

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15th of Ramadan



AH 3 (625 AD): Al Hassan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib is born


AH 1224 (1809 AD): The Ottoman Empire defeats Russia in the battle of Tatarejah, claiming 10,000 Russians soldiers


AD 1994: Zionist Baruch Goldstein, member of the extremist Kash movement opens fire on Muslim worshippers in the Abrahamic mosque, killing 29 and wounding 125. A number of Jewish settlers aided Goldstein in the attack, which also led him to his death. During the massacre, Israeli soldiers closed the doors of the mosque to prevent Muslims from escaping, and prevented outsiders from entering the mosque to aid their brothers