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Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606

موكب سبط ابن الجوزي وشعور النساء إلى نابلس سنة 606

c. 1209 CE · 606 AH

Damascus → Nablus

In 606 Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi sat in Damascus's congregational mosque exhorting to jihad; women had cut their braids for him — he told of Abu Qudama of Damascus and the woman who sent her hair saying 'make it a rein for your horse in God's path' — and he had them made into bridles for the mujahidin's mounts; when he mounted the pulpit and they were brought out, they were three hundred bridles, and the people cried out and cut as many again. The governor of Damascus and the notables were present; when he descended, the governor walked with the Sibt, and the people rode out through the prayer-ground gate in uncounted numbers, marched to Nablus to fight the Franks, took prisoners and killed, and returned safe and laden 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Levant & Iraq
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120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Damascus

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In 606 AH Sibt ibn al-Jawzi sat in the Great Mosque of Damascus preaching and urging people to jihad. Many locks of hair were gathered there, which women had cut off, and the account recalls the story of Abu Qudama al-Shami and the woman who cut her hair and said, "Make it a tether for your horse in the cause of God." Three hundred hobbles for the mujahidin's horses were made from it. When they were displayed on the pulpit the people cried out, and they cut more like them. When he came down from the pulpit, the governor of Damascus stood up and walked with Sibt, and the people rode out in countless numbers and marched to Nablus to fight the Franks. They took captives and killed, and returned safe and laden with spoils 1.

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Damascus· Nablus
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سبط ابن الجوزي

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 26
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Damascus submits to the Tatars, 658

When Aleppo's fall reached Damascus on a Saturday, al-Nasir fled; Hulagu's aman was proclaimed and Hama's keys sent after him — while the citadel resisted until twenty mangonels cracked the Tarama tower, then yielded for aman and Kitbugha was installed. Baalbek and Nablus fell, al-Nasir was taken under aman into Hulagu's service, and the khan recrossed the Euphrates leaving a detachment — while Damascus's Christians raised the cross through the markets.