At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
Ala' al-Din Mughultay's army
Commanders: Ala' al-Din Mughultay
Damascus
Summary
Al-Nuwayri took part in a battle against the Mongols on 29 Sha'ban 702/18 April 1303 alongside the amir Ala' al-Din Mughultay, and so could describe the war against the Mongols and the victory of Shaqhab as an eyewitness in the historical section of his encyclopaedia 1.
The victory of Shaqhab
Shaqhab — near Damascus in early Ramadan 702 — was the battle that broke the last great Ilkhanid thrust into Mamluk Syria; Ibn Taymiyya was also present. The diwan official's fighting beside Mughultay let him narrate its details from observation rather than hearsay 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Nuwayri· Ala' al-Din Mughultay
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Mustakfi I
People and things also explored
Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Al-Subki becomes chief qadi of Damascus, 739/1339· Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310· Birth of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Damascus, Sha'ban 710/early 1311· Ibn Kathir's compilations: al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya and his other works, about 738/1338· Ibn Kathir moves to Damascus and grows up there, about 709/1309
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 157
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nuwayri fights beside Mughultay, 29 Sha'ban 702/18 April 1303, eyewitness of Shaqhab”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-shaqhab-702/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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