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Qinnasrin

قنسرين

Qinnasrin, capital of the Qinnasrin-and-Awasim jund; its people compounded with Abu Ubayda on Hims's terms then broke faith, and al-Simt ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi retook it; it held the Tanukh hadir from their first settling in Syria in hair tents before they built houses — some converting while Banu Salih ibn Hulwan of Quda'a stayed Christian, some converting in al-Mahdi's days; it and Hims afterwards formed a single jund, its kuwar including Aleppo, Manbij, Harran and what adjoins them.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Qinnasrin is the chief town of the military province (jund) of Qinnasrin and of its Awasim. Its people made peace with Abu Ubayda on the same terms as the peace of Homs. Then they broke the covenant, and al-Simt ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi conquered it, according to al-Baladhuri. 1 2

Tanukh and the people of the city

The Tanukh were present there from their first settling in al-Sham, in tents of hair, and then they built houses. Some of them embraced Islam. The Banu Salih ibn Hulwan of Quda'a remained upon Christianity, and some of them embraced Islam in the days of al-Mahdi. 2

The jund and its districts

Qinnasrin and Homs became a single jund. Among its districts are Aleppo, Manbij, Harran and what surrounds them. It is one of the military provinces of al-Sham (Damascus), and the site of the conquest of Qinnasrin. 1

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The Conquest of Qinnasrin
Has part
Antioch· Manbij
Part of
Damascus

People and things also explored

the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.197
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.198
  • al-Farghani, Elementa astronomica (Golius, Amsterdam 1669)
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