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От первого столкновения при Бадре под предводительством Пророка Мухаммада ﷺ до походов праведных халифов: каждая битва рассказана этап за этапом, по классическим источникам, с интерактивной картой.
The first major battle in Islamic history. On 17 Ramadan 2 AH (13 March 624), 313 Muslims under the leadership of the Prophet ﷺ defeated a Quraysh army of around 1,000 men at the w…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыWeeks after Badr, the first of the three Jewish tribes of Madinah broke with the covenant of the city. The immediate cause was an assault on a Muslim woman in their market and the …
The trying battle at the foot of Mount Uhud. On 7 Shawwal 3 AH (23 March 625), 700 Muslims under the leadership of the Prophet ﷺ fought a Quraysh army of 3,000 men, in a battle tha…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыThe second break came when Banu Nadir, asked to contribute to a blood-price under the covenant, agreed and then planned to drop a millstone on the Prophet ﷺ from a roof while he wa…
In Shawwal of the fifth year after the Hijrah (627 CE), a coalition of around 10,000 men, Quraysh, Ghatafan and their allies, besieged the city of Madinah. On the advice of Salman …
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыIn Muharram of the seventh year after the Hijrah the Prophet ﷺ marched on Khaybar, the fortified oasis in the north whose chiefs had raised the confederates against Madinah two yea…
Three thousand men were sent to the Byzantine frontier east of the Dead Sea after the killing of the Prophet's ﷺ envoy. At Muʾtah they met a force many times their size. The Prophe…
When Quraysh broke the treaty of al-Hudaybiyah by backing an ally against Khuzaʿah, the Prophet ﷺ moved on Mecca with ten thousand men. The army camped at Marr al-Zahran and lit te…
Two weeks after Mecca fell, Hawazin and Thaqif gathered under Malik ibn ʿAwf to fight the new power before it settled. Twelve thousand Muslims marched out, and some of them said al…
What was left of Thaqif after Hunayn shut itself inside the walls of Taʾif with a year's stores. The Muslims invested the town, used a mangonel and a testudo against the wall, and …
Word came that Byzantium was massing on the northern frontier. The Prophet ﷺ called the army out openly, in the worst heat, at harvest, over seven hundred kilometres of desert — th…
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ leads the first army of the Ridda wars against the false prophet Tulayha al-Asadi and his Ghatafan allies. Four phases: the advance from Medina, the martyrdom…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыThe bloodiest battle of the Ridda wars. Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ against Musaylimah and the Banu Hanifa in al-Yamamah. Nine phases: the advance, the first clash, the retreat to the ca…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыKhalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ opens the Sasanian front. Six phases: the Battle of Chains at Kazima, the Battle of al-Madhar, the Battle of Walaja with its famous pincer movement, the Battl…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыKhalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ defeats the great Byzantine army of Heraclius at the Yarmuk valley. Six phases: the approach, Khalid's feigned retreat, the ambush in the wadi, the fight at t…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыSaʿd ibn Abi Waqqas ﵁ defeats the main army of the Sassanid empire under Rustam ibn Farrukhzad. Six phases: the approach along the Atiq canal, the "Day of Disorder" with the first …
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыAbu ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrah ﵁ surrounds Jerusalem; Patriarch Sophronius demands that only the caliph may conclude the treaty. ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab ﵁ travels in person from Medina to …
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыNuʿman ibn Muqarrin al-Muzani ﵁ defeats the last organized Sassanid force in the mountain valley of Nahavand. Six phases: the approach through the mountain pass, the feigned retrea…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ﵁ leads twenty thousand horsemen from Egypt into Ifriqiya. At Sufetula (Sbeitla) they meet the army of the Patrician Gregory, exarch of Africa, with his Berber a…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOff the Lycian coast near Phoenix, the Muslims under ʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ibn Abi Sarh ﵁ defeat the Byzantine fleet of Emperor Constans II. By binding their ships together with ropes…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыDhul-Hijjah 35 AH: rebels from Egypt, Kufa and Basra surround Medina and besiege the house of ʿUthman ﵁. Six phases: the gathering of the rebels, the encirclement and first demands…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOutside Basra, ʿAli ﵁ meets the coalition of Talha ﵁, Zubayr ﵁ and Aisha ﵂, who have ridden out to demand retribution for the blood of ʿUthman ﵁. After three days of negotiations, …
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOn the Euphrates plain of Siffin, west of modern Raqqa, the armies of ʿAli ﵁ and Muʿawiya ﵁ meet in the largest pitched battle between Muslims in the first fitnah. Months of skirmi…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыAt the Nahrawan canal east of Mada'in, ʿAli ﵁ destroys the Khariji rebellion in a brief but decisive action. The Khawarij, discontented with the arbitration of Siffin, have gathere…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыAround 1235, Sundiata Keita and his Mande coalition defeated the Sosso army of Sumanguru Kanté on the plain of Kirina. The victory laid the foundation of the Mali Empire and became…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыIn 1473 the island city of Djenné, in the inland delta of the Niger, passed out of Mali's orbit into the Songhay state after a blockade that closed the water and the land together.…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOn 12 April 1493, outside Gao, the Songhay general Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Ture defeated Sonni Baru, son and heir of Sunni Ali Ber. The Sonni dynasty ended on that field and the Aski…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOn 13 March 1591, a Saadi-Moroccan expedition of four thousand men under Judar Pasha defeated the Songhai army of Askia Ishaq II at Tankondibogho near Tondibi, north of Gao. The fi…
Late 1804: weeks after being thrown back from the wall of Alkalawa, the jama'a of Usman dan Fodio ﵀ went out again and was destroyed in open ground beside the same capital. Between…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыThe first great battle of the Fulani Jihad. On 21 June 1804, the jama'a of Usman dan Fodio, under the command of Abdullahi dan Fodio and Umaru al-Kammu, defeated a more numerous ar…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыThe fall of Alkalawa, capital of Gobir, in October 1808. Under the command of Muhammad Bello, Ali Jedo, and Aliyu Jedo, the city was taken after three earlier failed assaults. Sult…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыOn 21 March 1818 a small, lightly armed jama'a under Seku Amadu ﵀ met a far larger Bamana-led coalition on waterlogged ground in the inland delta of the Niger. The coalition attack…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыIn March 1903 the twelfth Caliph of Sokoto chose hijra over submission and walked east out of his capital with several thousand followers, repeating the withdrawal by which Usman d…
Открыть интерактивную карту битвыIn the summer of 1845 Prince Vorontsov marched about eighteen thousand men into the Chechen mountains to take Imam Shamil's ﵀ headquarters at Dargo, and took it: the village was em…
Between April and July 1857 al-Hajj Umar Tall ﵀ brought an army the French put at about twenty thousand fighters against a French fort held by sixty-four trained defenders, and cou…
In 1923 the Italian army in Cyrenaica pushed south to take the desert wells, because whoever held the water held the country the resistance fell back into. At Bir Bilal, a well for…
The Dutch invaded Aceh in 1873 and were thrown back with their commander dead. They took the capital the next year and won nothing by it: the sultan left, the resistance went inlan…