The Islamic Golden Age
Explore The Islamic Golden Age on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- House of Wisdom (830)
- Founding of Baghdad (762)
- The Graeco-Arabic translation movement (750)
- al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr (820)
- Al-Khwarizmi (780)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750)
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980)
- Great Mosque of Cordoba built (785)
- Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (1025)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (1021)
- Rumi (1207)
- Reign of Harun al-Rashid (786)
- Papermaking spreads west (751)
- Harun al-Rashid (763)
- Omar Khayyam (1048)
- Al-Andalus / Caliphate of Córdoba (711)
- Al-Qarawiyyin University founded (859)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Caliphate of Córdoba (929)
- al-Razi (Rhazes) (865)
- Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (1100)
- Battle of Talas (751)
- Al-Azhar founded (970)
- al-Biruni (973)
- Ibn Rushd's commentaries on Aristotle (1170)
- Founding of Cairo (al-Qahira) (969)