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Harran's final ruin, 670

خراب حران الأخير سنة 670هـ

c. March 1272 CE · Ramadan 670 AH

Harran

Ramadan 670 — the Tatars moved Harran's remaining people east and the city was ruined utterly; it had been emptied three years earlier when its khatib Ibn Taymiyya and others came down to Damascus 1.

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The final ruin of Harran

In Ramadan 670 AH the Tatars moved those remaining in Harran to the east, and they destroyed the city and wiped it out completely 2.

Harran had been emptied three years earlier, in 667 AH, when its preacher Ibn Taymiyya and others arrived in Damascus from it 3. This ended that ancient city, whose name the Hanbali school of Harran had carried. The family of Ibn Taymiyya came from there, and their learning moved to Syria.

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The Conquest of Harran· The earthquake that ruined al-Jazira, 508· Muslim ibn Quraysh takes Harran and kills its qadi· Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581· Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi· Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya· Sawab al-Adili· Sayf al-Din Ibn Taymiyya

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 577, 564
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 577
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 564
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The Conquest of Harran

In al-Baladhuri: Iyad marched on Harran, halting at Ajda and sending his vanguard ahead — its people shut the gates against them, and when he invested it the Harranian faction among them sent word that they held part of the city and asked him to make for al-Ruha so they could compound with him secretly and leave him and the Christians apart; the Christians heard, consented to what the Harranians offered and outbid it, so he went to al-Ruha whose people had gathered, shot at the Muslims a while, sent out their fighters whom the Muslims routed back into the city, and soon sued for peace and aman; another report has Iyad finding Harran empty — its people removed to al-Ruha — so when al-Ruha fell they compounded for their city from within it on the like of its treaty; he compounded with Harran on the like of al-Ruha's terms, they opened its gates, he set a man over it and went on to Sumaysat where Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal and Habib ibn Maslama held villages and forts, its people compounding likewise — Sumaysat later apostatised and he returned and besieged it till he took it — and he came to Saruj, Ra's Kayfa and the White Land, mastering its land and compounding with its fort-dwellers on al-Ruha's terms.