Islamic History & Culture/Rightly-Guided CaliphsRightly-Guided CaliphsLessons1The Rightly-Guided Caliphs (632–661 CE)Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali — the thirty-year Khilafat-i-Rashidah that consolidated Islam in Arabia, conquered Persia and the Byzantine Levant, codified the Qur'an and faced the first civil wars.9 minTry YourselfQuiz on Rightly-Guided Caliphs