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... the victory. The victory opened the way for the subsequent conquests of Damascus, Jerusalem, and all of the Levant.
... to differing rulings on the status of its inhabitants. The conquest of Syria's greatest city announced Muslim power throughout ...
The surrender of Jerusalem was one of the most momentous events in Islamic history. Patriarch Sophronius agreed to surrender the city but insisted the keys be h
...ng of Kufa and Basra transformed the character of the Iraqi conquest from a military campaign into a permanent settlement.
...tle of Heliopolis was the decisive engagement in the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Amr ibn al-As had led a Muslim force of roughly 4...
...reasury and register), the judicial system, and oversaw the conquest of Persia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
The conquest of Cyprus was the first major Muslim naval operation in the...
... the infrastructure that would sustain a century of further conquests.
The Muslim conquest of North Africa was a prolonged campaign spanning several d...
...t some Arabs interpreted as prophetic indications about the conquest of the city. The expedition assembled a massive combined fo...
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 92 AH stands as one of the most...
...elegations offering terms rather than resistance. The rapid conquest of the Iberian Peninsula following Guadalete shocked the Fr...
The conquest of Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) by the young Umayyad gen...
...sive turning point that saved Christian Europe from Islamic conquest. Modern historians offer a more nuanced view: the battle wa...
...aliphate for nearly three more centuries, until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 923 AH. The line of Abbasid shadow caliphs in C...
...t continued until the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab. The conquest secured the northern flank of Medina, eliminated a major ba...
The Conquest of Mecca stands as one of the most remarkable events in Isl...
The Battle of Hunayn took place shortly after the Conquest of Mecca when the Hawazin and Thaqif tribal confederacy mob...
...and went on to become a respected warrior in the subsequent conquests of Iraq and Persia. The victory at Buzakha broke the back ...
...r of Blood,' was one of the early engagements in the Muslim conquest of Iraq against the Sasanid Persian Empire. Khalid ibn al-W...
...e rule over Greater Syria and opened the way for the Muslim conquest of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon.
...y, expelled by Byzantine rule, was permitted to return. The conquest established a model of governance of sacred space that woul...
...le of Nahavand, known in Arabic sources as 'Fath al-Futuh' (Conquest of Conquests), was the decisive final engagement that broke...
The conquest of Alexandria completed the Muslim takeover of Egypt, one o...
The conquest of Sindh under the young Umayyad general Muhammad ibn Qasim...
The conquest of Al-Andalus was one of the most rapid territorial acquisi...
...storians debate the extent of what was intended — whether a conquest or an extended raid. Muslim power in the Iberian Peninsula ...
...ained under Crusader control for 88 years until Saladin's reconquest in 1187. The contrast between the Crusader conquest and the...
...s of the medieval period, setting the stage for Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem. Saladin, who had spent years patiently unifyi...
Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem on 27 Rajab 583 AH — the anniversary of the Is...
...urope over the following decades, eventually leading to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
...d within fifty years achieved its greatest triumph with the conquest of Constantinople.
The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II was one o...
...b was a significant Muslim victory in Iraq during the early conquest period, avenging an earlier defeat at the Battle of the Bri...
...ine army in Palestine and opened the way for the subsequent conquest of the Levant. It took place during the caliphate of Abu Ba...
The conquest of Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited citie...
...lligence and sometimes assistance to the Muslim forces. The conquest of Egypt gave the emerging Muslim state control of the weal...
...state, leading to its fragmentation and the rapid Christian conquest of major Andalusian cities over the following decades: Córd...
... for 150 years, until the Battle of Vienna and subsequent reconquest. The battle is remembered as a national tragedy in Hungary ...
...tle of the Chains) was the opening engagement of the Muslim conquest of Iraq in 12 AH / 633 CE, commanded by Khalid ibn al-Walid...
...ners made this one of the bloodiest engagements of the Iraq conquest. The battle effectively broke the back of Persian resistanc...
...was one of the few Muslim military defeats during the early conquests, fought in 13 AH / 634 CE. Following the transfer of Khali...
...fled northward. The Battle of Jalula opened the door to the conquest of Media and the Iranian highlands, making it one of the mo...
The Conquest of Ctesiphon (al-Mada'in, 'the Cities') in 16 AH was the mo...
Amr ibn al-As led the Muslim conquest of Egypt, defeating the Byzantine garrison. He founded Fust...
Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the strait with 7,000 soldiers and defeated the Visigothic King Roderic at the Battle of Guadalete. Within seven years, most of the Iber
The Seljuk Turks under Tughril Beg entered Baghdad and ended Buwayhid control. The Abbasid caliph granted Tughril the title 'Sultan' and 'King of the East and W
...ecaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Unlike the Crusader conquest, he showed mercy to the inhabitants and allowed Christians ...
The Ottoman victory at the Battle of Kosovo established Muslim rule in the Balkans. Over the following centuries, Islam spread in the region through conversion
Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih conquered Constantinople at age 21, fulfilling the Prophet's hadith: 'You shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader its lea
Sultan Selim I defeated the Mamluk Sultanate at Marj Dabiq near Aleppo. This victory led to Ottoman control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Me
Ottoman Sultan Selim I conquered Egypt, ending the Mamluk Sultanate and gaining control over the Muslim holy cities.