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...arah 2:251): "So Dawud killed Jalut, and Allah gave him the kingdom and prophethood and taught him from that which He willed." ...
...upon him), son of the prophet Dawud, was granted by Allah a kingdom of unparalleled power and scope — one that has never been m...
...was sent by Allah to the Children of Israel in the northern kingdom of Israel after the era of Dawud and Sulayman. He is identi...
...t Muslim advance. The political structure of the Visigothic kingdom, which had been centralized around the monarchy and had not...
...s, Byzantine Emperor Leo III, and the rulers of neighboring kingdoms survives in classical sources and reveals a sophisticated ...
...ition of considerable scale, pushing deep into the Frankish kingdom after sacking the church of Saint Hilary at Poitiers. Charl...
The conquest of Al-Andalus was one of the most rapid territorial acquisitions in Islamic history. Tariq ibn Ziyad, a freed slave who had risen to command in Nor
The Battle of Hattin was one of the most consequential military engagements of the medieval period, setting the stage for Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem. Sal
...leper King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem. Saladin had invaded the Kingdom of Jerusalem with a large force and had spread his army out...
...f power in the Iberian Peninsula in favour of the Christian kingdoms. The Almohads under Caliph al-Nasir had recovered much of ...
...d Isabella — the 'Catholic Monarchs' — who had united their kingdoms and were determined to complete the Reconquista. Granada w...
...in Europe, lasting barely two hours yet ending the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Suleiman the Magnificent led a well-disciplined...
...y northward toward al-Hira, the capital of the Arab Lakhmid kingdom which had been a Persian client state.
...on route between the steppe and the Middle East. The Khazar Kingdom north of the Caucasus became a long-term adversary of the e...
The last Muslim kingdom in Spain, Granada, surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella. S...
...ified the Arabian Peninsula under his rule and declared the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The new state became the custodian of the ...