At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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The Ghazan disturbance in Syria in 699 AH
In Syria there was the disturbance of Ghazan, king of the Tatars. Among the elders of hadith in Damascus and the Mountain, meaning al-Salihiyya, more than one hundred people died. About four hundred were killed in the mountain or died of cold and hunger 1.
About four thousand of them were taken captive, among them seventy from the descendants of Shaykh Abu ʿUmar 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 775
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghazan's devastation of Syria, 699”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/ghazan-syria-699/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.