The Rashidun army (Arabic: جيش الراشدين) was the core of the Rashidun Caliphate's armed forces during the early Muslim conquests in the 7th century. The...
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The Rashidun Caliphate (Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَةُ ٱلرَّاشِدَةُ, romanized: al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
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Muslim conquest of Persia (redirect from Rashidun conquest of Persia)
regional Rashidun army commander Khalid ibn al-Walid was transferred to oversee the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and as the Rashidun army became increasingly...
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The Rashidun (Arabic: الراشدون, romanized: al-Rāshidūn, lit. 'the rightly-guided') are the first four caliphs (lit. 'successors') who led the Muslim community...
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unit, or the early Muslim cavalry unit, was the cavalry forces of the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquest of Syria. The division, which formed the...
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بنت الازور; died 639), was an Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate. She played a major role in the Muslim conquest of the Levant...
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Battle of the Iron Bridge (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
Battle of the Iron Bridge was fought between the Muslim Rashidun army and the Byzantine army in 637 AD. The battle took its name from a nearby nine-arch...
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church are built in Saxon style. May – Siege of Babylon Fortress: The Rashidun army lays siege to Babylon Fortress in the Nile Delta (near Cairo). The next...
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Battle of the Yarmuk (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
Yarmouk) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate. The battle consisted of a series...
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Mubarizun (category People from the Rashidun Caliphate)
special unit of the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. The Mubarizun were a recognized part of the Muslim army with the purpose...
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this time, Khalid ibn al-Walid was the most important leader of the Rashidun army. It was the first time since the collapse of the Neo-Babylonian Empire...
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though a number of Iranian figures stayed in active revolt against the Rashidun army and the later Islamic caliphates for almost 200 years after the collapse...
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became the first city in the Palestine region to be conquered by the Rashidun army and quickly developed into a centre of Islamic law. However, by the...
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Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sasanian Empire. It occurred during the early Muslim conquests and marked a decisive victory for the Rashidun army during...
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Siege of Jerusalem (636–637) (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire in the year 636–637/38. It began when the Rashidun army, under the command of Abu...
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Greater Khorasan (section Rashidun era (651–661))
needed] The Rashidun commanders Ahnaf ibn Qays and Abd Allah ibn Amir were assigned to lead the invasion of Khorasan. In late 651, the Rashidun army defeated...
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Al-Qa'qa ibn Amr (category Generals of the Rashidun Caliphate)
مالك التميمي الراعي) was an Arab Muslim commander and general in the Rashidun army who belonged to the tribe of Banu Tamim. He and his tribe converted...
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Dhiraar ibn al-Azwar (category People from the Rashidun Caliphate)
Bahnasa. Diraar was a member of the elite Rashidun cavalry unit and also a dueling specialist of the Rashidun Army operating mostly under the famous general...
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Khalid ibn al-Walid (category Generals of the Rashidun Caliphate)
the Yarmouk (636), the Rashidun army conquered most of the Levant. Khalid was subsequently demoted and removed from the army's high command by Umar. Khalid...
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Military conquests of Umar's era (category Military history of the Rashidun Caliphate)
Umar was the second Rashidun Caliph and reigned during 634–644. Umar's caliphate is notable for its vast conquests. Aided by brilliant field commanders...
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Domnall Brecc's naval force of Dál Riata. March – Siege of Ctesiphon: The Rashidun army (15,000 men) under Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas occupies the Persian capital...
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Battle of Firaz (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
634 between the Rashidun Caliphate and the combined armies of the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire. It ended with a Rashidun victory, concluding...
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First battle of Dongola (category Battles involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
the early Muslim Rashidun army and the Oriental Orthodox Christian Nubians of the Makuria in 642, This was the first real Rashidun arab defeat on the...
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Shurahbil ibn Hasana (category Generals of the Rashidun Caliphate)
(companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) and a key commander in the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquest of the Levant. Shurahbil's father was a certain...
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Early Muslim conquests (category Wars involving the Rashidun Caliphate)
Sasanians and the Byzantines, such as when they fought together against the Rashidun army during the Battle of Firaz. Some of the lands lost by the Byzantines...
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of the Zagros Mountains is annexed by the Rashidun Caliphate. April – Siege of Jerusalem: The Rashidun army (20,000 men), led by 'Amr ibn al-'As, conquers...
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr (category Children of Rashidun caliphs)
one of the Rashidun commanders. The Byzantines and their Copt allies showering the Rashidun army with arrows and stones, until the Rashidun overcame the...
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from the Tihama, northern Yemen, Bahrayn and Oman, to reinforce Khalid's army in the Muslim conquest of Syria. Ikrima was most likely martyred fighting...
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Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah (category Generals of the Rashidun Caliphate)
Paradise was promised. He remained commander of a large section of the Rashidun Army during the time of the Rashid Caliph Umar and was on the list of Umar's...
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Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (category People from the Rashidun Caliphate)
the Rashidun cavalry. The Byzantines and their Coptic allies showered the Rashidun army with arrows and stones from the city wall, until the Rashidun overcame...
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