Caesarea
قيسارية
Coastal Caesarea of the Filastin district; first besieged by Amr ibn al-As in year 13 and finally taken by Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan in Shawwal year 19 — some say the opening of year 20 — after a siege of near seven years and the guidance of Yusuf the Jew to the water-conduit; al-Waqidi reports it held seven hundred thousand apostates, thirty thousand Samaritans and two hundred thousand Jews, three hundred markets and a hundred thousand guarding its wall each night; in Ibn al-Zubayr's days the Byzantines came upon it and ruined it, demolishing its mosque, and when Abd al-Malik's rule was secure he repaired it, restored its mosque, garrisoned it and rebuilt Tyre and Acre the Outer on its model.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Connections
- Site of
- The Conquest of Caesarea
- Part of
- Jerusalem
People and things also explored
Masjid Al-Aqsa· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Conquest of Syria· The Isra and Mi'raj· Amr ibn al-As· Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali· Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Caesarea”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qaysariyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.