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