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Summary
Salah al-Din took Homs and Hama. The people of Hama refused, so he fought them the next day, took the city, and granted safety to its people, but the citadel held out against him. 1
Connections
- Occurred at
- Hims (Emesa)· Hama
- Had participant
- Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
People and things also explored
Damascus· the Khalid shrine outside Homs· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 64-65
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islam.museum contributors. “Saladin takes Homs and Hama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/saladin-homs-hama-573/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.