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Overview
At the end of 64 AH a battle was fought at Marj Rahit, east of Damascus, between Marwan ibn al-Hakam and the supporters of the Umayyads on one side, and the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr on the other. Victory went to Marwan. 1
The book holds that it was the beginning of the Umayyads' recovery of a state that had been very close to collapse. 1
The army of Ibn al-Zubayr in Syria was led by al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri. 2
The book gives the date in the Hijri calendar, and it has not been converted here.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- Had participant
- al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri
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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
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006) , p. 30
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Battle of Marj Rahit”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/battle-of-marj-rahit/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.