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  2. Islamization of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Islamization of Egypt occurred after the seventh-century Muslim conquest, in which the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate seized control of Egypt from the Christian dominated Byzantine Empire. Egypt and other conquered territories in the Middle East gradually underwent a large-scale conversion from Christianity to Islam , motivated in part by a ...

  3. History of Islam - Wikipedia

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    Under the Fatimids, Egypt became the center of an empire that included at its peak North Africa, Sicily, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Red Sea coast of Africa, Tihamah, Hejaz, and Yemen. [188] Egypt flourished, and the Fatimids developed an extensive trade network in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.

  4. Timeline of the history of Islam - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started, [1] though not by Muslims. [2] [3] [4]

  5. Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 November 2024. Expansion of the Islamic state (622–750) For later military territorial expansion of Islamic states, see Spread of Islam. Early Muslim conquests Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632 Expansion under the Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661 Expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750 Date ...

  6. Coptic period - Wikipedia

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    The "Coptic period" is an informal designation for Late Roman Egypt (3rd−4th centuries) and Byzantine Egypt (4th−7th centuries).This era was defined by the religious shifts in Egyptian culture to Coptic Christianity from ancient Egyptian religion, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century.

  7. Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    c. 543 – Makuria (Chalcedonian), Nobatia and Alodia (Coptic Church) c. 550 – Suebi return from Arian to Chalcedonian; c. 558 – Christianization of Ireland (Celtic Church) c. 563 – Picts (Celtic Church) [9] c. 568 – Lombards (Arian Church) 569 – Garamantes (Chalcedonian Church) 589 – Visigoths go from Arian to Chalcedonian

  8. History of Islamism - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic Republic has also maintained its hold on power in Iran in spite of US economic sanctions, and has created or assisted like-minded Shia terrorist groups in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan [90] [91] and Lebanon [92] (two Muslim countries that also have large Shiite populations).

  9. Historiography of early Islam - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of early Islam is the secular scholarly literature on the early history of Islam during the 7th century, from Muhammad's first purported revelations in 610 until the disintegration of the Rashidun Caliphate in 661, and arguably throughout the 8th century and the duration of the Umayyad Caliphate, terminating in the incipient Islamic Golden Age around the beginning of the 9th ...