The second battle of Homs, 680

وقعة حمص الثانية على التتار سنة 680هـ

c. 1281 CE · 680 AH

Hims (Emesa)

The great encounter at Homs in 680 — among the martyrs Azdamur the jamadar, Sunqur al-Ashqar's Damascus na'ib ('advancing, not retreating', at fifty-odd) and the adib Shams al-Din Ibn Maktum of Baalbek 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Levant & Iraq
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1270128012901300 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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The second battle of Homs

In 680 AH the great battle of Homs against the Tatars took place, and a group of amirs and scholars were martyred in it 1.

Among them was the amir ʿIzz al-Din Uzdamar al-Jamdar, deputy of the sultanate in Damascus for Sunqur al-Ashqar. He had knowledge and virtue and many noble qualities. He was martyred at Homs, advancing and not retreating, at about fifty years of age 2.

Also among them was Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Maktum al-Baʿli, a learned and gifted man of letters, who was martyred in the battle of Homs 3.

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Hims (Emesa)

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the Khalid shrine outside Homs· The Conquest of Hims· Saladin takes Homs and Hama· Abdel Daim Kaheel· al-Malik al-Mansur b. Shirkuh· Asad al-Din Shirkuh II of Homs· Hashim al-Atassi· Khalid ibn al-Walid

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 643-644
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 643
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 644
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the Khalid shrine outside Homs

The shrine outside Homs popularly ascribed to Khalid ibn al-Walid; al-Umari rejects the ascription decisively — Khalid was dismissed by Umar, taken to Medina and died there — and assigns the tomb to Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiya.