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Mu'awiya I's Southern Campaigns (658-661)
Mu'awiya I's Southern Campaigns were a series of raids and military expeditions of Umayyad forces onto Hijaz, Yemen and Iraq after the failure of the arbitration talks after the Battle of Siffin. The campaigns against the Caliphate of Ali continued until the Assassination of Ali. Background After the assassination of Uthman , the third caliph, disputes arose between the early Muslim community about the succession of uthman. Ali ibn Abi Talib was chosen to succeed Uthman which was refused by the governor of Syria Mu'awiya I contributing to the First Fitna. Hostilities resumed between Mu'awiya and Ali after the failure of arbitration talks, contemporarily Muawiya sent Amr Ibn al As to take control of Egypt in which he found success. Mu'awiya sent his lieutenant commanders and ordered raids against Ali's strongholds in Iraq and Arabia. Campaigns In Arabia Mu'awiya sent Yazid ibn Shajara, a pious Uthmanid, to acquire pledge of allegiance from the Quarysh tribe of Mecca in early 66 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the Roman era, the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia. The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and south-west, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the north-east, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the south-east. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of petroleum, oil and natural gas. Before the mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
