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- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
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Overview
Suq Asad is a village and market in Kufa. Al-Baladhuri mentions that Asad ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri, brother of Khalid, took it and moved people to it, and it was named after him. His camp was beside it when he went out to Khurasan as its governor. 1
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.402
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islam.museum contributors. “Suq Asad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/suq-asad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.