The Rashidun Caliphate

The rule of the first four caliphs after the Prophet: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali, when the community expanded from the Arabian Peninsula to the Levant, Iraq, Egypt and Iran. The museum roughly bounds it from 632 CE to 661 CE. These boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are not absolute.

The museum's holdings for this era today include: notable events: 1, polities: 1, groups: 1, most frequently appearing figures: 148, buildings: 1.

Notable events

• Umar dismisses al-Numan ibn Adi from Maysan (634 CE)

Polities

• The Rashidun Caliphate (632 CE to 661 CE)

Groups

• The Mothers of the Believers

Most frequently appearing figures

• Umar ibn al-Khattab
• Khalid ibn al-Walid
• Uthman ibn Affan
• Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
• Aisha bint Abi Bakr
• Amr ibn al-As
• Umm Habiba Ramla bint Abi Sufyan
• Ka'b ibn Malik al-Ansari
• Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
• Safwan ibn Umayya

Buildings

• The Great Mosque of Kufa

The lists above are the most prominent and most frequently appearing items in the museum, not everything it holds. Items for this era are being added gradually from primary sources with each new batch.

The era's boundaries are the museum's own organising convention and are approximate. For the wider history of this period, see ^{1 2}.