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¶ Death of Jaafar al-Sadiq, sixth Shii imam.
767
¶ Death of Abu Hanifa, Iraqi jurist and eponym of
the Hanafi Legal School.
785–86
¶ The building of the Great Mosque at Cordoba.
795
¶ Death of Malik ibn Anas, jurist of Medina and
eponym of the Maliki Legal School.
798
¶ Death of Abu Yusuf, co-founder of Hanafi Legal
School.
801
¶ Death of female mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya.
804
¶ Death of Shaybani, Kufan jurist and cofounder
of Hanafi Legal School.
808
¶ Foundation of Fez in the Maghrib.
818
¶ Death of Ali al-Rida, the eighth Shii imam.
820
¶ Death of al-Shafii, founder of the Shafii Legal
School.
827
¶ Abbasid caliph al-Mamun launches inquisition
to impose the Mutazili doctrines as the state
religious ideology.
839
¶ Muslims capture Sicily and southern Italy.855
¶ Death of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, hadith scholar and
eponym of the Hanbali Legal School.866
¶ Death of al-Kindi, early Arab philosopher.870
¶ Death of al-Bukhari, author of the most respected
Sunni canonical collection of hadith.874–939
¶ Period of Lesser Occultation of Muhammad al-
Mahdi, the twelfth Shii imam.909
¶ Foundation of Fatimid Ismaili Shii dynasty in
North Africa.910
¶ Death of the Sufi teacher al-Junayd.912–61
¶ Golden age of Umayyad rule in Andalusia.922
¶ Crucifixion of the Sufi al-Hallaj in Baghdad.923
¶ Death of the Quran commentator and historian
al-Tabari in Iraq.929
¶ Qarmati Shiis attack Mecca and remove the
Black Stone from the Kaaba.