Today in Islamic History

Battles & Sieges

1529 (497 years ago)

(15 October) The Ottoman forces under the personal command of Suleiman the Magnificent withdrew the Siege of Vienna after holding it for around 2 weeks. With winter approaching and with it the traditional closing date of the campaign season (26 October), the Ottomans had to end the siege.

Births

1542 (484 years ago)

(15 October) The 3rd Mughal Emperor Jalal al-Din Muhammad Akbar was born in Umerkot (now in the Sindh province of Pakistan). Akbar was the son of Humayun and the grandson of Babur who founded the Mughal Empire of India in 1526 CE.

Deaths

0925 (1101 years ago)

(15 October) Persian Muslim polymath, physician, alchemist and philosopher Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, known to the Latin world as Rhazes, died in Rayy, Iran.