8 results for “balance”
Clear filter... Harb, the same warrior who had martyred Hamza at Uhud. The scale of Quran-memoriser martyrdoms prompted Abu Bakr to order th...
... fault line of Umayyad politics, with each caliph forced to balance these competing interests. Marwan ibn al-Hakam's victory sa...
...rossed the Pyrenees in a raiding expedition of considerable scale, pushing deep into the Frankish kingdom after sacking the c...
...iphs in Damascus were reportedly opened and desecrated. The scale of the massacre shocked observers. One Umayyad prince, Abd ...
... — approximately 700 knights and thousands of infantry. The scale of the defeat sent shockwaves through the crusader states. ...
...ry disasters suffered by the Crusader states, comparable in scale to Hattin. The Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, al-Salih Ayyub, had...
...feat for the Almohad Caliphate that permanently shifted the balance of power in the Iberian Peninsula in favour of the Christia...
...e most consequential naval battles in history, shifting the balance of Mediterranean power toward the emerging Islamic civiliza...