Conquest of Mosul
فتح الموصل
Umar made Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami governor of Mosul in year 20; Nineveh's people fought, he took its eastern fort by force, crossed the Tigris, and the other fortress treated for jizya with leave to quit; Mosul's monasteries treated likewise, then al-Marj, Bahadhra, Hibtun, al-Hiyana, al-Ma'alla, Damir and every Kurdish stronghold, Banu Ata of Hizza, Tall al-Shaharija and al-Salaq — Salih ibn Ubada holding Mosul's ribat — with Urmiya, al-Hawr, Khuway and Salamas paying Mosul a while. Umar dismissed him for Harthama ibn Arfaja al-Bariqi, who made it a misr, settled the Arabs in their plots and built the congregational mosque; Ibn Tulayd paved it with stone and Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik built the wall al-Rashid later razed.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
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Connections
- Had participant
- Harthama ibn Arfaja al-Bariqi· Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami
- Occurred at
- Mosul
People and things also explored
Harthama ibn Arfaja al-Bariqi· Mosul· Great Mosque of al-Nuri· al-Nusayr and Hudhayfa's Raid toward Tikrit· Conquest of Azerbaijan· Conquest of Shahrazur, al-Samaghan and Darabadh· بناء البصرة· Utba ibn Farqad's Khabis Baskets
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Conquest of Mosul”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/conquest-of-mosul/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.