92 results for “war”
Clear filter...ained patient and steadfast, calling them to repentance and warning them of Allah's punishment. When the 'Ad refused to he...
...ed them of the lessons of the 'Ad who had come before them, warning that the same fate could befall them if they rejected t...
... the moon, and the sun, declaring: "I have turned my face toward He who created the heavens and the earth, inclining toward...
...eople." Lut called his people with patience and sincerity, warning them of the punishment of Allah. He reminded them that ...
...b recognized the spiritual signs in Yusuf's dream early on, warning him not to tell his brothers lest they envy him. His wo...
...ll into worshipping it. Harun had strenuously opposed this, warning the people against it, but they were too numerous and t...
...ome interpret kifl as a portion, a guarantee, or a double reward. Others suggest it refers to a land or region named Kifl. ...
...n, as a young man among the Israelite forces, he stepped forward to face the fearsome giant warrior Jalut (Goliath). While ...
... of animals and birds. The Quran records him hearing an ant warn its colony as his vast army marched — and Sulayman smiled,...
...d. Despite their rejection, Ilyas persisted in his calling, warning them of the consequences of their idolatry. The Quran m...
...is Ahmad'" (Surah As-Saff 61:6). This prophecy — pointing toward the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — was a foundational element of the...
...e closest companions of Isa عليه السلام were known as the Hawariyin — the disciples or pure helpers. They are mentioned by ...
...and an elevation of Isa's status that moved progressively toward divinity. Paul's letters, which form a substantial portion...
...ation that would have been unrecognizable to the earliest Hawariyin and that laid the groundwork for the Trinity doctrine. ...
...ntemplation — already in a state of spiritual orientation toward the One God, without the polytheism that surrounded him. ...
...able figures of the period between Isa AS and Muhammad ﷺ is Waraqah ibn Nawfal — a Makkan scholar and cousin of Khadijah bi...
...life. His father, when he discovered Salman's inclination toward Christianity, was alarmed. He confined Salman at home and ...
... multiple cities — each genuine scholar directing Salman forward to another, each link in the chain representing a man who ...
... of his life, he had no living successor to direct Salman toward. The chain had come to an end. There were no more men of h...
... of Buzakha was the first decisive engagement of the Riddah Wars, fought against Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid of the Banu Asad tri...
...Battle of Yamama was the bloodiest engagement of the Riddah Wars, fought against Musaylima al-Kadhdhab (the Liar), who had ...
...ctions, encircling the enemy. The victory cleared the way toward the Sasanid provincial capital and further eroded Persian ...
... the tactical advice of his officers. The Persians deployed war elephants that terrified the Muslim horses. Abu Ubayd himse...
...0. The Sasanid commander Rustam Farrokhzad led a force with war elephants across the Euphrates. The battle lasted three day...
...Persian heartland, and Muslim forces pursued the remnants toward Khurasan and what is now Iran.
The Battle of the Masts was the first great Muslim naval battle and one of the most significant sea battles in the medieval Mediterranean. Emperor Constans II p
...rotect him, and who would avenge him — drove the subsequent wars between Ali, Aisha, and Muawiyah.
...s caliphate. Ali had marched from Medina to Kufa and then toward Basra seeking reconciliation, but negotiations broke down....
...an was Ali ibn Abi Talib's decisive campaign against the Khawarij — a puritanical faction that had broken away from his arm...
...on-coated sword by Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam al-Muradi, a Khawarij avenger for Nahrawan, while leading the Fajr prayer in th...
...he Second Fitna to distinguish it from the First Fitna (the wars between Ali and Muawiyah). Yazid I died in 64 AH, leaving ...
...to pledge allegiance to Yazid I and journeyed from Medina toward Kufa with a small group of family members and companions. ...
...lation, particularly the confederation led by the legendary warrior-queen al-Kahina (Dihya), mounted fierce resistance. Al-...
...rait of Gibraltar with a Berber-Arab force and marched northward. King Roderic — who had seized the Visigothic throne throu...
...by siege using a large catapult, and the army advanced northward along the Indus. The decisive confrontation came at the Ba...
...ver of night, the Muslim army withdrew in good order back toward the Pyrenees. Charles Martel did not pursue aggressively. ...
...s disaffected populations. His military campaigns swept westward with remarkable speed. The Umayyad governor of Khurasan, N...
...as a capable general who had spent his reign fighting civil wars and attempting to hold the fragmenting empire together. He...
... sent delegations to Byzantium to acquire manuscripts and rewarded translators with the weight of their output in gold. Whi...
...any cities institutionalized Sunni learning and formed a bulwark against Ismaili Fatimid influence.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, working at the Bayt al-Hikmah in Baghdad around 200 AH...
...le of Buzakha was one of the major engagements of the Ridda Wars — the campaigns waged by Abu Bakr al-Siddiq to reunify the...
...was the most costly and significant engagement of the Ridda Wars. Musaylima ibn Habib, mockingly called al-Kadhdhab (the Li...
...nid frontier forces, which had been exhausted by decades of war with Byzantium. The engagement demonstrated the extraordina...
...ainst the main Sasanid army of similar size, which included war elephants and was commanded by the capable general Rustam F...
...emarkable episodes of religious tolerance in the history of warfare. Following the victory at Yarmouk, Muslim forces under ...
...ry. The Persian force was shattered. Yazdegerd III fled eastward and was eventually assassinated by one of his own subjects...
...dges of support from the people of Kufa, Husayn travelled toward Iraq with a small group of family and companions, around 7...
...as Balat al-Shuhada (Plain of the Martyrs), halted the northward expansion of Muslim forces into the Frankish heartland. Ab...
...significant turning point in history: it halted Chinese westward expansion and secured Central Asia for Islam, which contin...
...h, decisively defeated the Umayyad army. Marwan II fled westward through Palestine and Egypt, where he was eventually kille...
...ed Anatolia to crusader passage, allowing them to proceed toward Syria. The fragmented state of the Muslim world — with Sel...
... England marched his army from Acre south along the coast toward Jaffa. Saladin's forces harassed the crusader column conti...
...ultan of Egypt, al-Salih Ayyub, had allied with displaced Khwarazmian Turks who had been expelled from their homeland by th...
...s was the final stand of Jalal al-Din Mangburni, the last Khwarazmian sultan, against the Mongol horde of Genghis Khan. The...
...The battle plunged the Ottoman state into a decade of civil war among Bayezid's sons. However, the Ottoman state survived, ...
...t Chaldiran against the Safavids, turned his attention southward. The Mamluk Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri marched north to confr...
...crossing the Euphrates against Sasanid forces equipped with war elephants. Al-Muthanna ibn Haritha, the Arab tribal command...
...ompanions who died in this battle included Dhiraar ibn al-Azwar's sister Khawla bint al-Azwar, one of several Muslim women ...
...Following the victory at Ajnadayn, Muslim forces moved northward. Damascus was besieged from multiple sides, with Khalid ib...
The Battle of Plocnik was a significant Serbian victory over an Ottoman raiding force in 1386, representing one of the few setbacks in Ottoman expansion in the
... expulsion. The same year Granada fell, Columbus sailed westward under Spanish patronage.
...a massive artillery train. After six months of brutal siege warfare, including extensive tunnelling and counter-tunnelling,...
...League's galleys, reinforced with a new type of oar-powered warship (galleass) carrying heavy forward-firing artillery, dev...
...2,000 faced Ibrahim Lodi's army of around 100,000 including war elephants. Babur's masterstroke was deploying firearms — ma...
...mer and Delhi. Prithviraj assembled a large force including war elephants and cavalry. In the battle, Muhammad of Ghor was ...
...monstrated that the Sassanid Empire, weakened by decades of war with Byzantium, could be defeated.
...actical masterpieces and demonstrated his genius for mobile warfare. The victory secured the Sawad (fertile crescent of Ira...
...Persian resistance in southern Iraq and opened the way northward toward al-Hira, the capital of the Arab Lakhmid kingdom wh...
...iver, ceding the strategic advantage. The Persians deployed war elephants which terrified the Muslim cavalry horses. Abu Ub...
...er Mihran. The Persian royal family and treasures fled northward. The Battle of Jalula opened the door to the conquest of M...
...ive Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas advanced toward the Persian capital, a complex of seven cities on the Tigr...
The Battle of the Masts (Dhat al-Sawari, 'Battle of the Masts') in 34 AH / 655 CE was the first ma...
Ali's caliphate was marked by the first civil war (fitna) in Islam. The Battle of the Camel, Battle of Siffin...
... to arbitration. This conflict marked the first major civil war (fitnah) in Islam and had lasting consequences for the Musl...
...rmy, rejecting the arbitration. They became known as the Khawarij (those who went out). They declared both Ali and Muawiyah...
...r in Central Asia. This battle halted Chinese expansion westward and secured Central Asia as part of the Muslim world. Chin...
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi wrote al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wal-Muqaba...
Suhrawardi, founder of the Illuminationist school of Islamic philoso...
Genghis Khan invaded the Khwarezmian Empire, systematically destroying Bukhara, Samarkand,...
...particularly through Muslim Spain and Sicily. Works of al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, al-Razi, and others transformed E...
... launched the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule during World War I, seeking an independent Arab state.
The Ottoman Empire, having entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers, was defeated and disme...
The UN voted to partition Palestine. The subsequent 1948 war led to the establishment of the State of Israel and the dis...
The establishment of Israel and the subsequent war resulted in the displacement of approximately 700,000 Pales...
Algeria's war of independence from France was one of the most significant...
Israel defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing East Jerusalem and al-Masjid al-Aqsa. The loss of Jerusalem was a profound shock to the Muslim world.
Egypt and Syria attacked Israeli positions during Ramadan. The Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal restored Arab military confidence.
...o against countries supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Oil prices quadrupled.
... against a superpower. However, the aftermath brought civil war and instability that continues to affect the Muslim world.
An eight-year war between Iraq and Iran killed an estimated one million peopl...
During the Bosnian War, over 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred at Srebrenic...