Tārīkh · now in beta
History you can see.
An interactive atlas of Islamic history. Explore scholars on a globe, follow their journeys across cities, and trace chains of knowledge spanning centuries.
What we've built
Three ways to read a life.
Names and dates turned into something you can see, follow and understand.
Mapping Empires
The world as it was.
Historical empires and regions shift through time. Move the year and the globe redraws around it — the right era, not a modern map wearing old names.
Journeys
The road, in order.
A scholar's path from city to city, walked in the order it happened. Each stop draws onto the map as you read it — here, Ibn Battuta setting out from Tangier.
Chain of Knowledge
Teacher to student.
Teacher-to-student links spanning centuries, drawn as a living chain of transmission — with honest attestation, never invented certainty.
Building in public
See it in action.
Recent posts showing the beta taking shape.
Ibrahim
Building Tārīkh · 4mo
We've just added a new feature to Tārīkh: mappings of historical empires and regions. The globe finally starts to feel like the right era.
Ibrahim
Building Tārīkh · 4mo
We usually read someone's biography like a paragraph. But history feels different when you can actually see it.
Ibrahim
Building Tārīkh · 5mo
Imagine being able to see a chain of knowledge stretch across centuries — an unbroken chain of teacher-student relationships spanning over a thousand years.
Ibrahim
Building Tārīkh · now
After six months of building, the Tārīkh beta is now open to everyone on the waitlist. Which scholar or period would you most want to see treated this way?
Open in waves
Join the waitlist.
We're inviting testers in batches. Leave your email and we'll reach out when your spot is ready.