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Events relating to islam
Muslims throughout Spain are ordered to convert to Christianity or to leave the kingdom
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim leads Muslim Somalis in a holy war against Christian Ethiopia, destroying churches and shrines
The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty
A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka
Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire
Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system
Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven
Wallace D. Fard founds the Nation of Islam as a black separatist movement in the USA
Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite
Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years
Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India
Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India
In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India
Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja
The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops
Black American Malcolm Little, who has joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, adopts the surname X to symbolize his rejection of his slave name
Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood
Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south
Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime
Ayatollah Khomeini is arrested in Qom, and imprisoned for eight months in Tehran, after instigating riots against the Shah
Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York
Demonstrations take place throughout Iran, demanding Islamic rule under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini
An Islamic revolution forces the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to flee from Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini receives a rapturous welcome on his return to Iran to head the Islamic Revolutionary Committee
