Today in Islamic History

What happened On This Day in Islamic History

Battles & Sieges

1097 (928 years ago)

(1 July) The Crusaders defeated the Seljuks of Rum in the Battle of Dorylaeum. The Seljuks were led by Sultan Kılıç Arslan I.

Births

0965 (1060 years ago)

(1 July)  Noted Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist, Hasan ibn Al-Haytham (known as Alhazen in the West) was born in Basra, Iraq.