campaigns
135 events
- 500 CE
the wars of Zuhayr ibn Janāb — the ḥaram of Ghaṭafān destroyed, Kulayb and al-Muhalhil taken
Commanders: Zuhayr ibn Janab al-Kalbi
- c. August 623 CE · Safar 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of al-Abwa (Waddan)
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: al-Abwa
- c. September 623 CE · Rabi' I 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of Buwat
Commanders: Muhammad · Umayya ibn Khalaf
Place: Buwat
- c. September 623 CE · Rabi' I 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of Safwan (First Badr)
Commanders: Muhammad · Kurz ibn Jabir al-Fihri
Place: Safwan
- c. November 623 CE · Jumada I 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of Dhu al-Ushayra
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: Dhu al-Ushayra
- c. March 624 CE · c. Ramadan 2 AH† · Ghazwa
The build-up to Badr: Abu Sufyan's caravan, Mecca's muster and the Prophet's march
Place: Badr
- c. April 624 CE · Shawwal 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of al-Kudr
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: al-Kudr
- c. May 624 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 2 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of al-Sawiq
Commanders: Muhammad · Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Place: Medina
- c. July 624 CE · Muharram 3 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of Dhu Amarr
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: Dhu Amarr
- c. October 624 CE · Rabi' II 3 AH · Ghazwa
Expedition of Buhran
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: Buhran
- March 625 CE · Shawwal 3 AH · Ghazwa
Quraysh Preparations for the Battle of Uhud
Commanders: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb · Muhammad
- c. January 626 CE · Sha'ban 4 AH · Ghazwa
The Expedition of Badr al-Maw'ida
Commanders: Muhammad · Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Place: Badr
- c. August 626 CE · Rabi' I 5 AH · Ghazwa
The Expedition of Dumat al-Jandal
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: Dumat al-Jandal
- c. July 628 CE · Rabi' I 7 AH · Ghazwa
The Expedition of Dhat al-Riqa'
Commanders: Muhammad
Place: Medina
- c. October 629 CE · Jumada II 8 AH · Sariya
The Expedition of Dhat al-Salasil
Commanders: Amr ibn al-As
Place: Al-Salsal
- c. 631 CE · c. 10 AH · Ghazwa
Ali ibn Abi Talib's expeditions to Yemen (twice)
Commanders: Ali ibn Abi Talib
Place: Yemen
- c. May 632 CE · Safar 11 AH · Ghazwa
The expedition of Usama ibn Zayd
Commanders: Usama ibn Zayd
Place: Medina
- c. 634 CE · c. 13 AH†
Abu Ubayd's Dispatch to Iraq
Commanders: Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi
Place: al-Hira
- 633 CE · 12 AH†
Muslim conquest of Persia
Place: Sasanian Empire
- 634 CE · 13 AH†
Muslim conquest of the Levant
Place: Near East
- c. 633 CE · c. 12 AH
The Conquest of Syria
- c. 12 April 634 CE · 1 Muharram 13 AH
The Dispatch of the Armies to Syria
- c. June 634 CE · Rabi' I 13 AH
Khalid ibn al-Walid's March to Syria
Commanders: Khalid ibn al-Walid
Part of: The Conquest of Syria
- c. July 639 CE · Rajab 18 AH
The Conquest of the Jazira
Commanders: Iyad ibn Ghanm al-Fihri · Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi
Place: The Jazira
Part of: The Conquest of Syria
- 640 CE · 19 AH†
Arab conquest of Armenia
Place: Caucasus
- c. January 640 CE · Muharram 20 AH
Iyad's Incursion toward Khilat
Commanders: Iyad ibn Ghanm al-Fihri · Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi
Part of: The Conquest of the Jazira
- between 644 and 656 CE
Uthman consults the Companions on the campaign to Ifriqiya
Commanders: Uthman ibn Affan
Place: Ifriqiya
- c. 645 CE · c. 25 AH
Habib ibn Maslama's Circuit of Armenia
Place: Armenia
Part of: The Taking of Qaliqala and the Opening of Armenia
- c. 645 CE · c. 25 AH
Salman al-Khayl's Reinforcement and the Spoils Dispute
Place: Qaliqala (Theodosiopolis/Erzurum)
- c. 646 CE · c. 26 AH
Salman al-Khayl's Campaign in Arran and the Caucasus
Commanders: Uthman ibn Affan
Place: Arran
- 27? AH
The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios
Commanders: Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh · Uthman ibn Affan
Place: Ifriqiya
- 650 CE · 30 AH
Sa'id ibn al-'As's Tabaristan campaign (30 AH)
Commanders: Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya
Place: Tabaristan
- 36 AH
Ali's muster at Dhi Qar
Place: Dhi Qar
- 657 CE · 37 AH
Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)
Place: Nishapur
- 659 CE · 39 AH
Muslim ibn ʿUqba at Dūmat al-Jandal — the town that would give bayʿa to neither (39 AH)
Commanders: Muslim ibn 'Uqba al-Murri al-Musrif
Place: Dumat al-Jandal
- 659 CE · 39 AH
Yazīd ibn Shajara sent to seize the Ḥajj and Mecca's bayʿa for Muʿāwiya (39 AH)
Place: Mecca
- 670 CE · 50 AH†
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
Place: Maghreb
- between 698 and 703 CE
Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina
Commanders: Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani · حسان بن النعمان
Place: Ifriqiya
- 711 CE · 92 AH†
Umayyad conquest of Hispania
Place: Hispania
- between 717 and 730 CE · c. 99 AH
Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia
Commanders: Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi · al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami
Place: Bardha'a (Partaw)
- between 719 and 720 CE · 101 AH
The Abbasid da'wa in Khurasan
Commanders: Abu Muslim al-Khurasani · قحطبة بن شبيب الطائي
- between 720 and 741 CE
Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Raid on Sus and the Sudan Lands
Commanders: Abdallah ibn al-Habhab
Place: al-Sus al-Aqsa
- c. 726 CE · 107 AH
Conquests of Hisham's reign
- between 732 and 744 CE · c. 114 AH
Marwan ibn Muhammad's Expedition through Khazar and Mountain Lands
Commanders: Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan
Place: Armenia
- c. 731 CE · c. 113 AH
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik's Khazar Campaign and the Taking of al-Bab
Commanders: Ishaq ibn Muslim al-Uqayli · Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi
Place: Bab wa-l-Abwab (Derbent)
- between 767 and 787 CE
Yazid ibn Hatim's March to Ifriqiya and His Killing of Abu Khatim
Commanders: روح بن حاتم · يزيد بن حاتم المهلبي
Place: Ifriqiya
- c. 802 CE · 187 AH
Nikephoros's Letter and the Expedition to Heraclea
- c. 805 CE · 189 AH
The General Ransom and the Conquests of 190 AH
- 218 AH
al-Ma'mun's Anatolian campaign
- between 847 and 870 CE
al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam's Conquest of Twenty-Four Fortresses
Commanders: al-Mufarraj ibn Sallam
Place: Barah
- between 852 and 855 CE
Bugha al-Kabir's Pacification of the Armenian March
Commanders: Bugha, mawla of al-Mu'tasim (Bugha the Elder) · al-Mutawakkil ala Allah
Place: Armenia
- 241 AH
al-Qummi's War on the Buja Lands
Commanders: محمد بن عبد الله القمي · سعد الخادم
Place: Bilad al-Buja
- 253 AH
Musa ibn Bugha's Daylam Campaign
Commanders: al-Mu'tazz bi-llah · Musa ibn Bugha
Place: Daylam
- c. 877 CE · 263 AH
Musa ibn Bugha's army sent to remove Ibn Tulun dissolves, 263/877
- c. 881 CE · 267 AH
Al-Muwaffaq's campaign against the Zanj and rescue of captives
Commanders: Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq
Place: Wasit
- c. February 893 CE · Safar 280 AH
Al-Mu'tadid's raid on Banu Shayban
Commanders: al-Mu'tadid bi-llah
- 893 CE · 280 AH
Isma'il ibn Ahmad's campaign into Turkish lands
- c. 894 CE · 281 AH
Al-Mu'tadid's campaign against Mosul and the castle of Mardin
Commanders: al-Mu'tadid bi-llah · Hamdan ibn Hamdun
Place: Mardin
- 997 CE · 387 AH
al-Mansur's Raid on Shant Ya'qub (Santiago de Compostela)
- 1006 CE · 396 AH
Mahmud of Ghazna's Multan campaigns, 396 and 401
Place: Multan
- 1064 CE · 456 AH†
Crusade of Barbastro
Place: Barbastro
- c. 1070 CE · c. 462 AH
Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria
Commanders: Atsiz ibn Uwaq · Alp Arslan
Place: Jerusalem
- 1097 CE · 490 AH
The First Crusade passes Konya, 490/1097
Place: Konya
- c. 1167 CE · 562 AH
Asad al-Din Shirkuh's first expedition to Egypt
- c. 1190 CE · 586 AH
The German King's Campaign and His Drowning
Commanders: Frederick Barbarossa
Place: Konya
- c. 1194 CE · 590 AH
the caliph's vizier marches on and takes Khuzistan
Place: Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)
- c. 1196 CE · 593 AH
Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan
Place: Hamadan
- c. 1205 CE · 602 AH
Shihab al-Din's victory over the Tirahis
- 1206 CE · 602 AH†
Mongol invasions and conquests
Place: Eurasia
- c. 1207 CE · 604 AH
Aytaqmish ravages the Ismailis near Qazvin
Place: Qazwin
- c. 1209 CE · 606 AH
Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606
Place: Damascus
- c. 1214 CE · c. 611 AH
Taj al-Din Abu Bakr's conquest of Kirman, Makran and Sind for the Khwarazmshah (c. 611 AH)
- c. 1217 CE · 614 AH
The Franks appear in Syria and march on Egypt
Place: Damietta
- 1219 CE · 616 AH†
Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
Place: Central Asia
- c. 1220 CE · 617 AH
The Mongols Erupt into the Lands of Islam
- c. 1220 CE · 617 AH
The Mongol Sweep through Jibal, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Place: Rayy
- c. 1220 CE · 617 AH
The Mongols Seize Mazandaran and the Treasures of Khwarazm-shah's Mother
- c. 1224 CE · 621 AH
The Tatars Return to Rayy and Hamadan in 621 AH
Place: Hamadan
- c. 1225 CE · 622 AH
Jalal al-Din reaches Khuzistan and Iraq
Place: Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)
- c. 1226 CE · 623 AH
Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil marches on Mosul and returns
Place: Mosul
- c. 1227 CE · 624 AH
al-Ashraf's armies enter Azerbaijan and take part of it
Place: Azerbaijan
- c. 1231 CE · 628 AH
The Mongols Enter Diyar Bakr and al-Jazira
- c. 1231 CE · 628 AH
The Mongols burst into Azerbaijan
Place: Azerbaijan
- c. 1231 CE · 629 AH
The Tatar Raid on Shahrazur in 629 AH
Place: Shahrazur
- c. 1299 CE · 699 AH
Ghazan's devastation of Syria, 699
Place: Damascus
- c. 1300 CE · c. 700 AH
Ghazan's Campaign against Syria, 700 AH
Place: Damascus
- 1395 CE · 797 AH†
Ottoman raids in the Despotate of the Morea
Place: Peloponnese
- 1408 CE · 811 AH†
Edigu's campaign against Moscow
Place: Moscow
- 1409 CE · 812 AH†
Mamluk campaign against Mecca (1409)
Place: Mecca
- 1414 CE · 817 AH†
Inal's campaign to Abkhazia (1414–1434)
Place: Abkhazia
- 1453 CE · 857 AH
Mehmed II prepares the Constantinople siege from Edirne
Commanders: السلطان محمد الفاتح
Place: Edirne
- 1478 CE · 883 AH†
Demak–Majapahit conflicts
Place: Trowulan Temple
- 1480 CE · 885 AH†
Ottoman invasion of Otranto
Commanders: السلطان محمد الفاتح
Place: Otranto
- 1514 CE · 920 AH†
Battles for Diyarbakir (1514)
Place: Diyarbakır
- 1538 CE · 945 AH
Sulayman Pasha al-Khadim's Indian expedition (1538)
- 1538 CE · 945 AH
Sulayman al-Khadim's expedition against India
Commanders: سليمان القانوني
Place: Aden
- 1538 CE · 945 AH
The Ottoman Entry into Yemen
Place: Aden
- 15 October 1541 CE · 28 Jumada II 948 AH
Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)
Commanders: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor · Hasan Agha al-Tushi
Place: Algiers
- c. October 1569 CE · Jumada I 977 AH
The Astrakhan campaign and the Don–Volga canal project
- June 1581 CE · Jumada II 989 AH
Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)
Place: Algiers
- 1645 CE · 1055 AH
The Cretan War against the Venetians
- 1798 CE · 1213 AH
The French Campaign on Egypt and the Proclamation of Jihad
- 1831 CE · 1247 AH†
Muhammad Ali's campaign on Syria
- 1860 CE · 1276 AH†
French expedition to Syria (1860)
- 1897 CE · 1315 AH†
Tirah Campaign
- 1902 CE · 1320 AH†
Unification of Saudi Arabia
Place: Arabian Peninsula
- 1916 CE · 1334 AH†
Erzurum Offensive
Place: Erzurum
- 1916 CE · 1334 AH†
Trebizond Campaign
Place: Ottoman Empire
- May 1918 CE · Sha'ban 1336 AH†
Dagestan Campaign
Place: al-Rūsiyya (land)
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Abu Bakr's Sortie to Naq' and Khalid's Command
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Abu Dulaf's Daylam Campaign
Commanders: Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa · al-Afshin
Place: Daylam
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al-Jarashi and the Sughd Fortresses
Commanders: Sa'id ibn Amr al-Jarashi
Place: al-Sughd
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al-Junayd's Khurasan and the Turkish War
Commanders: al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri · Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Place: Marw
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al-Hajjaj's Daylam Expedition
Commanders: al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi
Place: Daylam
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Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi's Sind
Commanders: Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi · Abu Ja'far al-Mansur
Place: al-Qandahar
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Ibn al-Ash'ath's Tabaristan Campaign
Place: Tabaristan
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Ibn Amir's Opening of Khurasan
Commanders: Abd Allah ibn Amir · al-Ahnaf ibn Qays
Place: Quhistan
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Imran ibn Musa's Sind and the Zutt-Mayd Wars
Commanders: Imran ibn Musa al-Barmaki · al-Mu'tasim Abu Ishaq ibn al-Rashid
Place: al-Qiqan
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al-Junayd's Sind Wars
Place: al-Daybul
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Ma'n ibn Za'ida's Campaign on Rutbil
Commanders: Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani · Yazid ibn Mazyad
Place: Zabulistan
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Marzuq's Ruse upon the Ispahbadh
Commanders: روح بن حاتم
Place: Tabaristan
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Masmala's Destruction in Tabaristan
Place: Tabaristan
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al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra's Khurasan
Commanders: al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra
Place: Zaghul
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The Fitting-out of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Commanders: Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi · Jahm ibn Zahr al-Ju'fi
Place: Makran
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Muslim ibn Sa'id's Farghana Disaster
Commanders: Muslim ibn Sa'id · al-Afshin
Place: Farghana
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Qays's Balkh Campaign and Nawbahar's Ruin
Commanders: Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami
Place: Balkh
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Qays ibn al-Haytham's Tukharistan March
Commanders: Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami
Place: Siminjan
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Qutayba's Baykand, Bukhara and Nizak's Killing
Commanders: قتيبة بن مسلم الباهلي · Bashshar ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Place: Baykand
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Qutayba's Opening beyond the River
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Salm ibn Ziyad's Khurasan
Commanders: Sallam ibn Ziyad
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al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad's Sijistan Campaign
Commanders: al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad al-Harithi · Aparwiz, Marzban of Zaranj
Place: Sijistan
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Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra's Second Disaster
Commanders: Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra
Place: Sijistan
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Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad's Baykand Campaign
Commanders: Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad · The Khatun of Bukhara
Place: Baykand
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Yazid ibn al-Muhallab's Jurjan Campaign
Commanders: يزيد بن المهلب
Place: Jurjan
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Yazid ibn al-Muhallab's Campaigns and al-Mufaddal's Succession
Commanders: يزيد بن المهلب · al-Mufaddal ibn al-Muhallab
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