At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
Sides
Commanders: صاحب الزنج
Summary
Talha ibn al-Mutamid (al-Muwaffaq, as the source names him) returned from the Zanj war in the year 259 AH, worn down by illness. Al-Muʿtamid ʿala Allah ordered Musa ibn Bugha to set out from Samarra for the Zanj war in Dhu al-Qaʿda. The caliph saw him off and bestowed robes on him on the road. There were wars between him and the Zanj over about a dozen months, the account of which is long, and then he was relieved of the war. 1.
The Zanj entered Ahwaz in this year and killed about fifty thousand people. It is among the fiercest engagements Ibn al-Jawzi records in the Zanj advance outside their stronghold in Basra. 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- al-Ahwaz
- Had participant
- صاحب الزنج· Musa ibn Bugha
People and things also explored
The sack of al-Ahwaz, 421· Conquest of al-Ahwaz, Manadhir and Nahr Tiri (16 AH)· The killing of the Zanj leader· Musa ibn Bugha's Daylam Campaign· Al-Muwaffaq's campaign against the Zanj and rescue of captives· Qumm's Revolt and Re-Conquest· The division of the realm between al-Mufawwid and al-Muwaffaq· The Zanj Enter Basra and Lay It Waste
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 105
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Zanj Enter Ahwaz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/zanj-sack-ahwaz-259/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.