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MANICHEISM ISLAM R O M A N L AW MAZDAISM
533 Institutes, Digest.
PROPHETIC
c. 610 Beginning of
Muhammad’s pro-
phetic career.
622 Muhammad’s
flight from Mecca;
start of hijra era.
632 Death of
Muhammad.
c. 635–37 Sasanians de-
feated by Arabs at
Qādisīya.
SCRIPTURAL
after 650 Arrival of
first Manicheans in
China.
c. 650 CaliphʿUthmān’s
edition of Qurʾān.
685–705 Caliph ʿAbd
al-Malik.
694–714 Hajjāj, gover-
nor of Iraq, refines
ʿUthmanic text of
Qurʾān.
741 Leo III’s Ecloga.