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1940
 
   
Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India      
1947
 
    
In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India       
1947
 
   
Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja      
1948
 
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The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops      
1953
 
    
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       
1954
 
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Nasser escapes an assassination attempt by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood       
1956
 
   
Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south      
1962
 
     
Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime        
1963
 
   
Ayatollah Khomeini is arrested in Qom, and imprisoned for eight months in Tehran, after instigating riots against the Shah      
1965
 
   
Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York