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| 1744 |
| | The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty | |
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| 1818 |
| | A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan | |
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| 1906 |
| | The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka | |
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| 1916 June 5 |
| | Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1928 |
| | 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 | |
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| 1929 |
| | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1930 |
| | Wallace D. Fard founds the Nation of Islam as a black separatist movement in the USA | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite | |
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| 1934 |
| | Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years | |
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| 1934 |
| | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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