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The Rashidun Caliphate

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The Rashidun era: the rule of the first four caliphs after the Prophet ﷺ — Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali — when the community spread from the Peninsula to Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Iran, roughly 632 to 661 CE.

The Rashidun era: the rule of the first four caliphs after the Prophet ﷺ — Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali — when the community spread from the Peninsula to Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Iran. The museum bounds it roughly from 632 to 661 CE; those bounds are the museum's organizing choice, not definitive.

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