14 results for “asr”
Clear filter...sury. The Muslims captured the legendary White Palace (Taq Kasra), whose great arch still stands today as one of the larges...
...juristic and theological schools. The founding of Kufa and Basra transformed the character of the Iraqi conquest from a mil...
Utba ibn Ghazwan established Basra as the southern garrison city for the Iraqi campaigns, at ...
...n his home in Medina by rebel groups from Egypt, Kufa, and Basra, who accused his administration of nepotism and misrule. A...
... first armed conflict between Muslim factions, fought near Basra. Aisha (the mother of the believers), Talha ibn Ubaydullah...
...ty of Wasit as his administrative capital between Kufa and Basra. He also reportedly played a role in the early standardiza...
...d with remarkable speed. The Umayyad governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, appealed desperately to Damascus but received i...
...awali as equal Muslims deepened resentment. Governors like Nasr ibn Sayyar (who was relatively enlightened) made efforts to...
...centuries of Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula. The Nasrid Emirate of Granada had survived for over 250 years as the...
...urmuz ibn Hurmuz assembled a large force at Ubulla (modern Basra area) to repel the Muslim advance. Khalid engaged the Pers...
...ed the Islamic calendar, created the diwan system, founded Basra and Kufa, and established the office of Qadi. His just rul...
...ho translated Kalila wa Dimna into Arabic, was executed in Basra. His work established Arabic as a language of sophisticate...
Abu Uthman al-Jahiz, the prolific Basran polymath, died. His Kitab al-Hayawan is a pioneering work...
Abu Nasr al-Farabi, known as the 'Second Teacher' after Aristotle, d...