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Battle of Dayr al-Jathaliq

وقعة دير الجاثليق

72 AH

In 72 AH Musab ibn al-Zubayr set out from Iraq with its people against Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in Syria. Abd al-Malik camped at Dayr al-Jathaliq in the countryside of al-Sawad, and banners from Rabi'a joined him. Musab was left with seven men after those who had been with him from Egypt and Yemen abandoned him; he fought until he was killed, and his head was brought to Abd al-Malik 123.

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The Umayyad Period
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Levant & Iraq
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In 72 AH Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr marched out with the people of Iraq against Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in Syria. Abd al-Malik halted at the Monastery of the Catholicos in the land of al-Sawad, and banners of Rabi'a joined him. 1

Mus'ab's death

Those with Mus'ab from Egypt and Yemen abandoned him, so he was left with seven men. He fought until he was killed, and his head was brought to Abd al-Malik. 2 3

The book gives the year in the Hijri calendar, and the date has not been converted to the Gregorian calendar here. 1

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Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr· Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

People and things also explored

Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform· al-Hajjaj's Mint and Coinage· The Transfer of Syria's Diwan from Greek· The Building of the Fortress of Masisa· Killing of Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr· Construction of the Dome of the Rock under Abd al-Malik· The Founding of Wasit· The killing of Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq

Sources

  1. The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002) , p. 216
  2. The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002) , p. 218
  3. The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002) , p. 220
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Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reform

Heraclius's dinars and the Persian Baghliyya dirhams reached Jahiliya Mecca and traded only as bullion: their mithqal twenty-two qirats less a fraction, ten dirhams seven mithqals, the ratl twelve uqiyyas of forty dirhams — weights the Prophet confirmed, and Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali, and Mu'awiya after him. Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr struck a few dirhams under Ibn al-Zubayr, later broken; then Abd al-Malik asked and tested, wrote al-Hajjaj to strike dirhams at fifteen qirats of the dinar-qirats, and struck the Damascene dinars — which came to Medina with Companions and Followers there and none objected. Al-Hasan ibn Salih: the Ajam dirhams ran great and small — twenty, twelve, ten qirats — and when Islam needed the mean for zakah they summed forty-two and struck the third, fourteen qirats, so ten Arab dirhams weigh seven mithqals. Quraysh's weights: the dirham for silver, the dinar for gold, ten dirham-weights to seven dinar-weights, the sha'ira a sixtieth of a dirham, the uqiyya forty dirhams, the nashsh twenty, the nawa five — all confirmed when the Prophet entered Mecca. And Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, asked who first struck engraved dinars, said 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan — dinars came Byzantine, dirhams Kisrawi and few Himyari'.