29 results for “west”
Clear filter...hat inhabited the region of Al-Hijr (Mada'in Salih) in northwestern Arabia, between the Hejaz and Greater Syria. The Thamud ...
...traveling to Syria, Palestine, and regions further east and west. Their message at this earliest stage remained consistent w...
...ministrative centre for the Iraqi campaigns. Located on the western bank of the Euphrates near ancient Babylon, Kufa was lai...
...or Yazdegerd III had assembled a last great Sasanid army in western Persia. Al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin commanded the Muslim forc...
...n the east and continued probing Byzantine frontiers in the west and north. Muawiyah's court in Damascus was renowned for it...
...ic military campaigns in medieval history, transforming the western Mediterranean world within the span of a few years. The ...
...rious disaffected populations. His military campaigns swept westward with remarkable speed. The Umayyad governor of Khurasan...
...ttle was decisive: Marwan's forces were routed, and he fled westward — through Syria, into Egypt, and south into the Egyptia...
... Emirate preserved the dynasty for another 250 years in the west and turned al-Andalus into a beacon of civilization.
...ansur founded Madinat al-Salam — the City of Peace — on the western bank of the Tigris River. Designed as a perfectly circul...
...im granted Toghril the title 'Sultan' and 'King of East and West,' inaugurating the Seljuk Sultanate as the military protect...
...ht and returned to Al-Andalus. The battle is often cited in Western historiography as having 'saved Christendom,' though his...
...d a significant turning point in history: it halted Chinese westward expansion and secured Central Asia for Islam, which con...
...aliph, decisively defeated the Umayyad army. Marwan II fled westward through Palestine and Egypt, where he was eventually ki...
...ears. Saladin's chivalrous conduct became legendary even in Western tradition.
...ader atrocities against Ottoman prisoners. The defeat ended Western European hopes of rolling back Ottoman power in the Balk...
... and expulsion. The same year Granada fell, Columbus sailed westward under Spanish patronage.
...icant Ottoman naval defeat, ending Ottoman expansion in the western Mediterranean. The Holy League assembled a fleet of appr...
... marked the furthest extent of Muslim military advance into Western Europe, though its historical significance has been deba...
...River in Central Asia. This battle halted Chinese expansion westward and secured Central Asia as part of the Muslim world. C...
...fiqh. The Maliki school became predominant in North Africa, West Africa, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
...ranted Tughril the title 'Sultan' and 'King of the East and West.' The Seljuks restored Sunni authority over Baghdad and bec...
Islam spread across West Africa through trans-Saharan trade routes and scholarly net...
...in the world, represents the deep penetration of Islam into West African culture.
...nd successors was a major center of Islamic civilization in West Africa. Timbuktu became a renowned center of Islamic learni...
...pire on European maps and demonstrated the wealth of Muslim West Africa.
...veling 120,000 km across the Islamic world and beyond: from West Africa to China. His Rihla remains a priceless historical d...
...cholar Uthman dan Fodio established the Sokoto Caliphate in West Africa, the largest state on the continent. His reformist m...
Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank launched a popular uprising against Israeli occupation...