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This is a list of the top-level leaders for religious groups with at least 50,000 adherents, and that led anytime from January 1, 601, to December 31, 700. It should likewise only name leaders listed on other articles and lists.
The 7th century is the period from 601 (DCI) through 700 (DCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era. The spread of Islam and the Muslim conquests began with the unification of Arabia by Prophet Muhammad starting in 622. After Muhammad's death in 632, Islam expanded beyond the Arabian Peninsula under the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661) and the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750). The Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century led to the downfall of the Sasanian Empire. Also conquered during the 7th century were Syria, Palestine, Armenia, Egypt, and North Africa.
The Rashidun Caliphs, often simply called the Rashidun, are the first four caliphs who led the Muslim community following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. The reign of these caliphs, called the Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), is considered in Sunni Islam to have been 'rightly guided'.
Al-Baqi Cemetery is an Islamic cemetery in Medina, Hejaz, located to the southeast of the Prophet's Mosque. It was the first Medinian Islamic cemetery, containing graves of many of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's family and companions.
This is a timeline of major events in the Muslim world from 601 AD to 700 AD.
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, was the leader of a caliphate based in Mecca that rivaled the Umayyads from 683 until his death.
The ten to whom Paradise was promised were ten early Muslims to whom, according to Sunni Islamic tradition, the prophet Muhammad had promised Paradise.
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya (Arabic: محمد بن الحنفية, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Hanafīyya; c. 637–February 700, was an Alid political and religious leader. He was the third son of the fourth Rashidun caliph Ali. Following his half-brother Husayn's death in 680, Ibn al-Hanafiyya was subsequently recognized as the head of the nascent Alid community.
Jund Ḥimṣ was one of the military districts of the caliphal province of Syria.
Ja'da bint al-Ash'ath was a wife of caliph Hasan ibn Ali. She belonged to the Kinda tribe.
Ḥubaysh ibn Dulja al-Qaynī was a tribal leader of the Quda'a in Jund al-Urdunn and a commander for the Umayyad caliphs Mu'awiya I, Yazid I and Marwan I.
