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The Nigeria-born Muslim scholar Sheikh Dr. Abu-Abdullah Abdul-Fattah Adelabu has argued that Islam had reached Sub-Sahara Africa, including Nigeria, as early as the 1st century of Hijrah through Muslim traders and expeditions during the reign of the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn al Nafia (622–683), whose Islamic conquests under the Umayyad dynasty ...
Prior to the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 634, Syria was a center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the state religion of the Byzantine empire. After 640, the conquest of Syria was finalized by the Muslim Arabs in the form of the Rashidun army led by Khalid ibn al-Walid , under the overall leadership of Abu Bakr , resulting in Syria ...
The new cabinet was dominated by Ba'ath members; and Salah al-Din al-Bitar became the Syrian premier. [31] [32] The 1963 Ba'athist coup marked a "radical break" in modern Syrian history, after which Ba'ath party monopolised power to establish a one-party state and shaped a new socio-political order in Syria by enforcing its state ideology. [36]
Syria was conquered by the Macedonian Empire which was ruled by Alexander the Great c. 330 BC and consequently became Coele-Syria province of the Seleucid Empire (323 BC – 64 BC), with the Seleucid kings styling themselves "King of Syria" and the city of Antioch being its capital starting from 240 BC. Thus, it was the Greeks who introduced ...
The short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria emerged in 1920, which was however soon committed under the French Mandate, which produced the short-lived autonomous State of Aleppo, State of Damascus (later State of Syria), Alawite State and Jabal al-Druze (state); the autonomies were transformed into the Mandatory Syrian Republic in 1930.
Syrian occupation of Lebanon: Syria withdrew from Lebanon. 2007: 6 September: Operation Orchard: Israel bombed a target in the area of Deir ez-Zor. 2008: October: Syria established diplomatic relations with Lebanon. 2011: 26 January: Syrian Revolution: Anti-government protests began in Syria. 2015 30 September Russia carries out its first air ...
1960 – Syrian Television begins broadcasting. 1961 – September: Discontent with Egyptian domination of the United Arab Republic prompts a group of Syrian Army officers to seize power in Damascus and dissolve the union. [4] 1964 – Population: 562,907 (estimate). [7] 1970 – Population: 836,668 city; 923,253 urban agglomeration. [8]
Since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in 9 Muslim-majority and in some parts of 3 Muslim-plurality states, when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Rufai Sani [105] began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. This was followed by ...