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Today is 18 Jumada I 1448 AH · 29 October 2026 CE
On this day in the museum
In the Hijri calendar
Nearest day with events
- The fall of Almeria to the Christians, 542 AH — c. 17 October 1147 CE · c. 17 Jumada I 542 AH
In the Gregorian calendar
- Battle of Una — 29 October 1483 CE · 27 Ramadan 888 AH†
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Travel through time, one story at a time
Pick a person, an era, or a city, and walk its story stop by stop on an interactive timeline — every event backed by its source.
Tour and learn
The museum is big. Start with one of these five pathways, or see all 301. Each has a clear goal and ordered steps.
Islam in Thirty Minutes
An introductory trail for those who have not known Islam before: the meanings of Islam, iman and ihsan, the five pillars and how they are performed, then who the Prophet is, how the message began and where the Hijri calendar starts.
The Meccan Period: From the Cave to the Hijra
A chronological trail through the years of the call in Mecca, from the descent of the revelation in the cave of Hira to the Hijra, in twelve events ordered as they unfolded.
The Two Emigrations to Abyssinia
A short lesson on the first departure from Mecca: why they went to Abyssinia, who sheltered them, what happened there and how they returned, with the differing accounts of their return.
The Women Around the Prophet: Twelve Lives
A trail through the lives of twelve women from the Prophet's circle — from the steadfast in Mecca to the emigrants, the fighters and the Mothers of the Believers — known by what has been transmitted of them.
From Opposition to Islam: Those Who Changed Sides
A trail through twelve places in the stories of those who opposed the call in Mecca and then entered Islam, from Umar to the Muslims of the conquest, and then the category of 'those whose hearts were to be reconciled'.
301 pathways in total — your progress is kept in your browser alone, no account. · All pathways
Walk the wings
Nine wings, each a door into a world.
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Time
4,419 eventsEras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world.
✦ Featured · changes every visitThe Baghdad Attestation on Fatimid Lineage
In Rabi' II 402 a document was drawn up in the chancery of the caliphate at Baghdad, attested and signed by… -
Place
1,800 placesCities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time.
✦ Featured · changes every visitAydın
A town in western Anatolia, formerly Tralleis, seat of the Aydın-oghlu emirate and later of an Ottoman sanjak… -
People
10,238 peopleProphets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
✦ Featured · changes every visitUtba ibn Rabi'a
An elder of Banu Abd Shams who argued for a negotiated settlement with Muhammad — and is remembered dying at… -
Ideas
2,019 conceptsBeliefs, concepts, sciences and schools, explained in plain words.
✦ Featured · changes every visitTatfful (entering another's meal uninvited)
Tatfful is entering another person's place to eat his food without his leave or knowledge of his consent, or… -
Objects
6,177 objects and buildingsManuscripts, art, architecture and relics from collections worldwide.
✦ Featured · changes every visitPiyale Pasha Mosque, Istanbul
1573 mosque at Kasım Pasha for admiral Piyale Mehmet Pasha; unique in the classical age for reverting to the… -
Words
9,546 passagesQur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples.
✦ Featured · changes every visitMuwatta 4
A'isha: the dawn prayer used to be held in the last darkness of night, and the women would leave wrapped in… -
Living Islam
Worship and practicePractices, the Islamic year, festivals, food, dress and music by region.
✦ Featured · changes every visitTawakkol Karman
Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist, born in Taiz Governorate in 1979. She co-founded… -
Today
Where the calendars meetNations, institutions, data and the people of the present.
✦ Featured · changes every visitMedia and the responsibility of its producers
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's position on programmes and channels that present superstition, fortune-telling and… -
Made
Made by Muslims todayWhat Muslims make and own today: bookshops, publishers, apps, studios, brands and charities.
✦ Featured · changes every visitTarmim (repair of endowed property, rented property and pledged property)
Tarmim is repair. It arises for endowed property, rented property and pledged property. For an endowment the…
Explore
Interactive ways through the content — beyond the ordered pathways above.
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Quran explorer
The whole Quran for continuous reading, surah by surah — the frozen Tanzil text, every verse a door to its museum page.
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Hadith explorer
The hadith collections in the museum — browse each work by book and report, with links out to Sunnah.com.
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Hijri timeline
Fourteen centuries on an interactive Hijri axis, with the Gregorian as a second reading.
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Hijri calendar
Browse the Hijri year month by month: every day with its Gregorian twin, the observances, a converter and an .ics download.
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Kids' Wing
The museum's children's corner: the Word Garden and the Prophet Quest with Hudhud.
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Timeline Explorer
Walk a person's, an era's or a city's story stop by stop on an interactive timeline.
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Find your Hijri date
Enter a Gregorian date and we tell you its Hijri equivalent — and what happened on that day.
Or start with the most famous journey in the story:
Start with the Prophet's migration42,955 entries · 86,000 pages · 301 pathways
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