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Pre-Islamic Arabia

The Arabian Peninsula and its neighbours in the generations before the revelation: trading towns, tribes, poetry, and Jewish, Christian and polytheist communities.

38 events

  1. 340 CE · conquest

    The First Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen

    Place: Yemen
  2. 440 CE · conquest

    Qusayy ibn Kilab Takes Mecca

    Commanders: Qusayy ibn Kilab

    Place: Mecca
  3. c. 490 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Burdan

    Commanders: Ziyad ibn al-Habula
  4. c. 494 CE · war

    The War of al-Basus
  5. 525 CE · conquest

    The Second Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen

    Commanders: Aryat (Abraha’s predecessor in Yemen) · Abraha

    Place: Yemen
  6. c. 530 CE · battle

    The First Day of al-Kullab

    Commanders: سلمة بن الحارث الكندي
  7. 535 CE · battle

    Battle of Bourgaon (535)
  8. 540 CE · battle

    Battle of Sbeitla (540)

    Place: Sufetula
  9. June 544 CE · battle

    Battle of Cillium (544)

    Place: Kasserine
  10. c. 550 CE · war

    The War of al-Harith al-A'raj on Banu Taghlib

    Commanders: al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir al-Ghassani
  11. c. 550 CE · conquest

    Thaqif's Takeover of al-Ta'if

    Place: Ta'if
  12. c. 550 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Nasar
  13. c. 550 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Shaqiqa and the Killing of Bustam ibn Qays
  14. c. 550 CE · battle

    The Second Day of Awara
  15. c. 550 CE · battle

    The First Day of Awara
  16. c. 550 CE · battle

    The Day of Dhi Najb
  17. c. 550 CE · battle

    Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Bakr and Taghlib
  18. c. 550 CE · battle

    Zuhayr ibn Janab's War on Ghatafan's Sanctuary
  19. c. 551 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Jufar (al-Saylam)
  20. 560 CE · battle

    Battle of Dhat Irq

    Place: Hejaz
  21. c. 570 CE · civil war

    The war between the Ahlaf and Banu Malik

    Place: Ta'if
  22. 575 CE · conquest

    Liberation and Persian Rule of Yemen

    Place: Yemen
  23. c. 580 CE · battle

    The Day of Sha'b Jabala
  24. c. 590 CE · battle

    The Day of Rahrahan
  25. c. 600 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Haba'a
  26. c. 600 CE · battle

    The War of Ka'b ibn Amr al-Mazini
  27. c. 600 CE · battle

    The War of Samir
  28. c. 600 CE · battle

    The Day of al-Sarara

    Place: Medina
  29. 602 CE · war

    Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

    Place: Asia Minor
  30. c. 604 CE · battle

    The Battle of Dhu Qar

    Commanders: Hani ibn Masʾud al-Shaybani · Iyas ibn Qabisa al-Taʾi
  31. 605 CE · battle

    Battle of Arzamon (605)

    Place: Dara
  32. 609 CE · siege

    Siege of Edessa (609)

    Place: al-Ruha (Edessa)
  33. c. 617 CE · 6 BH · battle

    The day of Bu'ath

    Commanders: Hudayr al-Kata'ib · Amr ibn al-Nu'man al-Bayadi

    Place: Medina
  34. c. 620 (approx.) CE · battle

    The Day of al-Radm between Murad and Hamdan

    Commanders: al-Ajda' ibn Malik al-Hamdani
  35. 626 CE · 5 AH† · siege

    Siege of Constantinople (626)

    Place: Constantinople
  36. 627 CE · 6 AH† · battle

    Battle of Nineveh

    Place: Nineveh
  37. · war

    The destruction of Jadis
  38. · siege

    Shapur's siege of al-Hadra

    Commanders: سابور بن أزدشير الوزير

    Place: al-Hadra (Hatra)