
The first Sheik of Praha and conquerer of Bohemia.
1068 - The Kingdom of Bohemia launches a crusade against the Emirate of El-Arish, the Emirate of Jerusalem, the Emirate of Amman, the Emirate of Mecca, the Emirate of Tripoli, and the Kingdom of Egypt.
1069 - Muslim armies invade Bohemia.
1070 - Bohemia is conquered. El-Arish rules Cheb and Usti nad Labem. Rashid Ahmed, the Emir of Jerusalem, gifts Praha, Plzen, Hradec Kralove, and Liberec to his 52-year-old marshal Akab Najeeb. Akab marries Jalila of Sternberg.
1071 - Akab provokes a war with Bohemia, which only rules Opava and Ostrava. Egyptian King al-Mustansir Fatimid crushes Opava. Jan of Praha, bishop of Ostrava, declares independence.
1072 - Conquered Bohemian nobles express concern over serving under a Muslim lord.
1073 - All of Akab's provinces are converted to Islam by the sword. Akab declares himself Emir of Bohemia. He fathers a bastard son Hashim and a legitimte son Abdul-Azeem. Salic consanguinity declared.
1074 - Akab declares Hashim his heir, and says Hashim will be remembered for centuries to come.
1075 - The Emirate of Bohemia invades Ostrava with 3,000 men. Ostrava is conquered in five months. Typhoid comes to Plzen.
1076 - First Crusade called by the pope. Nobody goes. Akab forces nobles in Ostrava to convert to Islam. Bohemia pays war debts by selling taxation rights in Liberec forests.
1077 - Akeb begins raising Hashim. Typhoid recedes. Akab has courts of justice and royal posts built to deal with revolts and thieves.
1078 - Thieves captured.
1079 - Rodolfo of Siena becomes pope. Germany declares war on Emirate of Jerusalem. King al-Mustansir calls on Bohemia to send troops. Akab, now aged 61, fights in Laustiz, Passau, and Meissen. All battles are tactical defeats for Egypt, but prevent Germany from heading for Egypt. Marshal Abdul-Fattah, who showed heroism at Meissen, dies.
1080 - Second battle at Passau ends in defeat for Egypt. Akab reconsiders his relationship with the king and begins conspiring against him. The war ends days later.
1081 - Akab and al-Mustansir reconcile. Denmark launches a crusade against Egypt. Akab and al-Mustansir are at odds again; Bohemia temporarily leaves Egypt.
1082 - Denmark declares war on Bohemia. Its crusade results in Alexandria and the surrounding provinces falling to Christian armies.
1083 - Akab and his army, called up by the king, lands in Egypt. Akab repulses Danish crusaders from Manupura and Buhairya and is given both provinces. A famine strikes Hradec Kralove and Akab spends four ducats to save the peasants. Seven hundred peasants revolt in adjacent Opava and loot the countryside. Akab orders marshes drained in nearby Plzen, and people flock to towns which grow considerably. The last Danish crusaders are expelled from Alexandria.
1084 - Marshal Mirza leads a band of ninety men against the revolters in Opava and is defeated. The revolters return to their homes. Bjørn Svendson, Prince of Denmark, marches on Praha with six hundred men. Akab is forced to sail from Egypt to repel the invaders. To buy time, Spymaster Ashraf leads several small bands of 20-40 soldiers against Bjørn's army.
1085 - Akab arrives in Praha. Egyptian soldiers arrive in Praha but walk past Bjørn's seiging army. Akab contemplates rebellion, but stays loyal and defeats Bjørn. Akab discovers that his wife Jalila has been unfaithful and that his newest son Izzadin is a bastard. Revolts tear through Bohemia. Skåne falls to Egypt.
1086 - Jalila dies. Akab marries his chancellor and once again declines to rebel against his liege. Denmark makes peace with Egypt, but Germany restarts its crusade and seizes Opava in eastern Bohemia. Akab remains out of the war and focuses on promoting order and efficiency, which is low due to the size of his demesne. He gives Liberec to his distant cousin Nizam. Egypt starts to crumble as el-Arish rebels.
1087 - Akab lays claim to Cheb and Usti nad Labem and declares war on el-Arish. He invades western Bohemia with 2,700 men. Germany declares war, but Akab buys peace for his own lands for 65 ducats. Just before the provinces are about to be captured, al-Mustansir makes peace with el-Arish. Amman and Alexandria secede from Egypt and Hungary declares war on Bohemia. Akab negotiates a separate peace for 15 ducats. Plzen is turned over to Nazim's brother Kamran and Akab's daughter Saghira marries Marsha Mirza von Sternburg. Nobles plot against the incredibly impious king, but Akab declines to join them.
1088 - A second plot against the king forms and Akab stays out. A revolt in Praha is crushed twice. Izzadin is restored to the order of succession and Akab declares that Izzadin will also be remembered for centuries. Hashim, now fifteen, is made sheik of Manupura to maintain his position as chief heir. Saghira dies in labour; her husband Mirza's army is expelled from Hungary.
1089 - Plzen briefly independent. Akab declines to join third plot against al-Mustansir. Bahira, Akab's ten-year-old daughter, borrows three hundred and fifty ducats from moneylenders. Jerusalem and Tripoli break away from Egypt, and el-Arish and Jerusalem declare war on Bohemia. The Egyptian kingdom is all but destroyed by civil war. Akab pledges fealty to Malik Shah, Sultan of the Seljuk Turks, and invades western Bohemia with 3,000 men. His wife Nura dies and he does not remarry. Anwar, one of Akab's commanders, invades the Sinai Peninsula with 1,500 men. He is wounded after several battles and dies in el-Arish. His army is repulsed.
1090 - Western Bohemia falls to Akab. El-Arish gives up these lands in return for peace. Revolts spring up in Praha and spread east. Akab seeks to restore law and order by building more courts of justice. He divides the provinces of Cheb and Usti nad Labem between his sons Hashim and Abdul-Azeem. Akab sends troops to help Sultan Malik Shah fight against the Egyptian successor states.
1091 - Count of Cagliari and Opava breaks away from Germany. Akab sends soldiers into Opava. Cagliari rejoins Germany and Germany declares war but settles with Bohemia for 91 ducats. Sultan Najeeb, Akab's first grandson, is born. Chickens are introduced by Akab into Hradec Kralove. Revolts subside throughout Bohemia.
1092 - Akab dies on April 10th at the age of 75. He is known as having been a reckless, valourous, tough soldier who was nevertheless chaste, modest, and trusting. Hashim becomes Emir of Bohemia.