Islamic History Maps

Origins, Expansion and Core Areas

• Satellite Map of the Middle East (source unknown)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Middle East in the Sixth Century,   from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [At UPenn]
• Muslim Expansion in the East in the Umayyad Period (661-750)
• The Umayyad Empire c.A.D.750, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [At UPenn]
• The Muslim Empire: 750 CE (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Late Abbasid Caliphate c.A.D.900, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam [At UPenn]
• The Muslim World c.A.D. 1300, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
• The Muslim World c.A.D. 1500, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
• The Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
• Map of Saudi Arabia [At Mt Holyoke]

Crusades

• The First Crusade, 1099 (Col) A clickable map of all of Europe in 1099 Source: Adaptation of "Europe at the time of the First Crusade", in Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Crusader States in the Early 12th Century (BW) Source: George Richard Potter, The Autobiography of Ousama, (New York: 1929 [copyright seems to be expired])   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• Crusader States, (Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• Jerusalem, (Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• Second and Third Crusades, (Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• The Empire of Sultan Salah Al-Din (1171-1193) and the Crusaders' Principalities in Syria and Palestine  [At UPenn]
• Fourth Crusade, (Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]

Spain

• The Umayyad Caliphate in the Second Half of the 9th and the Second Half of the 10th Centuries  [At UPenn]
• Spain after the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in the Periods of the Party Kings and of the Almoravids  [At UPenn]
• Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Reconquest by the Christian Kingdoms of the North. The Kingdom of Granada   [At UPenn]

Persia

• The Muslim East in the First Half of the 13th Century  [At UPenn]
• The Later Timurid Period; and Map of Safawid Persia in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [At UPenn]

Egypt

Turks: Seljuqs and Ottomans

• Map of Almoravid, Saldjuk, and Ghaznavid Expansion c.A.D. 1100, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [At UPenn]
• Growth of the Ottoman Empire From the Early 14th Century Till 1512  [At UPenn]
• The Ottoman Sultanate in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [At UPenn]
• The Ottoman Empire: 1556 (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• Europe, 1360, (Col) Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]
• Europe, 1519, (Col)   Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)   [At Medieval Sourcebook]

India and Far East

• Map of the Sultanates of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]