40 results for “syria”
Clear filter...alih) in northwestern Arabia, between the Hejaz and Greater Syria. The Thamud succeeded the 'Ad in inhabiting the land, and l...
... the message of tawhid in the land of Canaan (Palestine and Syria). He fathered Yaqub (Jacob), whose twelve sons became the p...
...e broader historical record both point to them traveling to Syria, Palestine, and regions further east and west. Their messag...
...e communities — known by various names and scattered across Syria, Arabia, Ethiopia, and the edges of the Byzantine world — a...
... their faith and where it had originated, they told him: in Syria (Sham). This was the first directional pointer on a journey...
When a Syrian-bound caravan finally passed through his region, Salman al...
...in of righteous Christian scholars from city to city across Syria and its surrounding regions, Salman al-Farisi رضي الله عنه ...
...adith and seerah literature. He had traveled from Persia to Syria. He had served one bishop after another across decades. He ...
...th from Medina and routed Tulayha's forces. Tulayha fled to Syria and later accepted Islam, becoming a Muslim warrior. This v...
... of Ajnadayn was one of the first major Muslim victories in Syria-Palestine, fought between a unified Muslim army and a large...
...g rulings on the status of its inhabitants. The conquest of Syria's greatest city announced Muslim power throughout the Levan...
...t permanently. Upon hearing the news, Emperor Heraclius bid Syria farewell: 'Peace be upon you, O Syria — what a wonderful co...
... judicial system, and oversaw the conquest of Persia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
...n and commanded by Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, the governor of Syria. A fleet assembled from Syrian ports crossed to Cyprus, whi...
...nd Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan on the banks of the Euphrates in Syria over several months of skirmishing and one major engagement...
...h by the people of Iraq. However, Muawiyah marched with the Syrian army and the two forces faced each other at Maskin on the ...
...e military might of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan — who had ruled Syria as governor since the time of Umar — and with his own force...
...us: Greek, which had served as the bureaucratic language of Syria and Egypt, was replaced by Arabic in government corresponde...
...is patronage. His court in Rusafa (Sergiopolis) in northern Syria was a center of Arab literary culture. However, the structu...
...Marwan's forces were routed, and he fled westward — through Syria, into Egypt, and south into the Egyptian province. He was t...
...basids seized power, he spent years as a fugitive, crossing Syria into Egypt and then traversing North Africa while Abbasid a...
... dislodge the Muslim armies that had been spreading through Syria. The Muslim force numbered approximately 25,000 to 40,000 a...
... between the forces of the Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Syrian governor Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, who refused to give alle...
...atolia to crusader passage, allowing them to proceed toward Syria. The fragmented state of the Muslim world — with Seljuks, F...
...who had spent years patiently unifying the Muslim states of Syria and Egypt, lured the crusader army out of its fortresses in...
... treaty — and then faced a large coalition of Crusaders and Syrian Ayyubid princes who opposed Egyptian dominance. The battle...
... fall ended the Crusader political project in Palestine and Syria definitively. The Mamluks systematically demolished the cit...
...ining Crusaders and consolidate Mamluk power over Egypt and Syria.
...ous engagement that ended the Mamluk Sultanate's control of Syria, Palestine, and ultimately Egypt. Sultan Selim I, fresh fro...
...alid ibn al-Walid, after his extraordinary march across the Syrian desert, joined the Muslim forces in Palestine in time for ...
...ve centre, marked a turning point in the Muslim conquest of Syria. Following the victory at Ajnadayn, Muslim forces moved nor...
...Baybars continued his campaign to push Mongol forces out of Syria. The engagement near Ain Tab was part of a series of battle...
... / 634 CE. Following the transfer of Khalid ibn al-Walid to Syria, the Muslims sent Abu Ubayd ibn Masud al-Thaqafi to command...
...fought in 13 AH / 634 CE near Damascus as part of the early Syria campaign. After the Muslim victory at Ajnadayn, the remaini...
Saladin founded the Ayyubid dynasty after deposing the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt. The Ayyubids restored Sunni governance and successfully defended Muslim lands
...e Ayyubid sultan. The Mamluk Sultanate would rule Egypt and Syria for over 250 years, stopping the Mongol advance at Ain Jalu...
... killing an estimated one-third of the population in Egypt, Syria, and North Africa.
...j Dabiq near Aleppo. This victory led to Ottoman control of Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Ottoma...
Israel defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing East Jerusalem and al-Masjid al-Aqsa...
Egypt and Syria attacked Israeli positions during Ramadan. The Egyptian cro...