The Battle of the Yarmuk (also spelled Yarmouk; Arabic: معركة اليرموك) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim...
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Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
Abu Sufyan later played a supporting role in the Muslim army at the Battle of the Yarmuk against the Byzantines in Syria. His sons Yazid and later Mu'awiya...
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The Yarmuk River (Arabic: نهر اليرموك, romanized: Nahr al-Yarmūk, Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְמוּךְ, romanized: Nəhar hayYarmūḵ; Greek: Ἱερομύκης, Hieromýkēs;...
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Hind bint Utba (category Women companions of the Prophet)
herself in 630 after the conquest of Mecca. She is highly praised by Sunni Muslim sources for her military role at the Battle of the Yarmuk under caliph Umar...
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Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (category Sahabah who participated in the battle of Badr)
of the rules of war, such as the use of military deception, the division of spoils of war at the Battle of the Yarmuk, the treatment of prisoners of war...
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Asma bint Abi Bakr (category Women companions of the Prophet)
time". The Battle of the Yarmuk in 636 is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history. The Muslims were hugely outnumbered by the Byzantines...
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Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (category People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant)
the Byzantine emperor Heraclius to recapture the city. Yazid was reinforced by Khalid and the Byzantines were defeated. In the Battle of the Yarmuk in...
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some remnants of the defeated Byzantines troops from the Battle of the Yarmuk, a major battle fought on the banks of the Yarmuk River north of Fahl, had gathered...
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Vahan (Byzantine commander) (redirect from Vahan the Armenian)
leader of Armenian origin. He was probably killed shortly after the Battle of Yarmuk in 636. Vahan, an Armenian who had been the garrison commander of Emesa...
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Amr ibn Ma'adi Yakrib (redirect from Last king of Yemen before Islam)
have the strength of a thousand soldiers. Amr participated in the battle of the Yarmuk and the battle of al-Qadisiyyah against the elephants of the Sassanids...
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Jordan (redirect from Kingdom of the Jordan)
by the Muslims in 636 at the decisive Battle of the Yarmuk just north of Transjordan. Transjordan was an essential territory for the conquest of Damascus...
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Ikrima ibn Amr (category Medieval Arabs killed in battle)
during the Battle of the Yarmuk in 636. According to the historian al-Ya'qubi (d. 898), Ikrima was married to Qutayla bint Qays ibn Ma'dikarib, the sister...
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Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (redirect from Expedition of Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah)
Damascus in late 635 or during the preparation for the subsequent Battle of the Yarmuk. At the time, supreme command of the Muslim armies in Syria was held...
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Khalid ibn al-Walid (category Battles of Khalid ibn Walid)
State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0154-5. Jandora, John W. (1985). "The Battle of the Yarmūk: A Reconstruction". Journal of Asian History...
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Battle of Yarmouk Camp may refer to: Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015) Battle of Yarmouk Camp (December 2012) Battle of the Yarmuk This disambiguation page...
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Suhayl ibn Amr (category Companions of the Prophet)
Muhammad.[citation needed] He participated in the battle of Yarmuk alongside the Muslims. He died in 639 from the plague epidemic in Imwas, a small village near...
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factions battle for control of arms factory". Reuters. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. مسكين, خواجة. "Attack on SAF trenches outside Yarmuk". sudanwarmonitor...
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Heraclius (redirect from Heraclius the younger)
before The Battle of the Yarmuk. He described the caliph Abu Bakr to him as an ordinary-looking man who roams the market ensuring the strong fulfill the rights...
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Al-Baladhuri: The Battle of the Yarmuk (636)". Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2016. Islamic Conquest of Syria: A translation...
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Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham (category Women companions of the Prophet)
of Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, who was killed in the Battle of the Yarmuk. According to another source, she was married to Abu Sa'id Khalid ibn Sa'id on the...
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The Battle of Chegem was an armed confrontation between Russian security forces and militants from the Yarmuk Jamaat, an Islamist insurgent group operating...
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Arab–Byzantine wars (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2016. Al-Baladhuri, The Battle of the Yarmuk (636) and after Archived 11 October 2013 at the Wayback...
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(2000). The Battles That Changed History. Courier Corporation. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-4864-1129-3. Jandora, John W. (1985). "The Battle of the Yarmūk: A Reconstruction"...
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Pope Martin I (redirect from Martin the Confessor)
Ghassanid allies for the Battle of the Yarmuk. Constantinople's faltering strategy was symptomatic of internal malaise, fruit of religious sectarianism...
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Rashidun Caliphate (category History of the Arabian Peninsula)
suspicions of each other were extreme. After the Battle of the Yarmuk and Battle of al-Qadisiyyah the Muslims won heavy spoils, filling the coffers at...
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histories of the Tang dynasty. Following the disastrous Battle of the Yarmuk in 636, the Byzantine Empire withdrew the bulk of its remaining forces from the Levant...
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Raymond Ibrahim (category Middle Eastern studies in the United States)
where he wrote a master's thesis under Victor Davis Hanson on the Battle of the Yarmuk, an early military encounter between Islam and Byzantium based...
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Homs (redirect from Emirate of Homs)
the Rashidun Caliphate under Umar during the Battle of the Yarmuk (now the Jordan–Syria border). In 637 CE, the Rashidun army, led by Khalid ibn al-Walid...
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Nicolle, Yarmuk 636 AD - The Muslim Conquest of Syria, Osprey, 1994, p. 46. Athamina 2014. Kaegi 1995, pp. 98–99. Al-Tabari (915). The History of al-Tabari...
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al-Fārūq ("the one who distinguishes between right and wrong"), was from the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh tribe. He was a companion of the Islamic prophet...
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