• Ḥabīb ibn Maslama al-Fihrī (Arabic: حبيب بن مسلمة الفهري; c. 617–c. 662) was an Arab general during the Early Muslim conquests, under Mu'awiyah ibn Abi...
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    Habib Diallo (born 1995), Senegalese professional footballer Habib Esfahani (1835–1983), Iranian poet, grammarian and translator Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri...
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  • Harran's surrender and dispatched Safwan ibn Mu'attal al-Sulami and his own kinsman Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to seize Samosata, which also ended in a...
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  • reached Harran, he dispatched Safwan and Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to subdue Samosata; after Safwan and Maslama captured several villages and forts in...
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  • into Armenia for the first time, launching from Syria and led by Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri. They conquered several Armenian territories but were challenged...
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    Mu'awiya divorced Na'ila bint Umara al-Kalbiyya, she was wed to Mu'awiya's close aide Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri and after the latter's death, to another...
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    Arminiya (redirect from Al-Arminiya)
    actual conquest of the country in 645/646, under the command of Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri. The Arabs first moved against the western, Byzantine portion...
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    defeated by the Arab forces under command of Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Ajnadayn in 634. Ibn al-Walid had converted to Islam around 627, becoming...
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    private family empire of their own – Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri in Ifriqiya and Yūsuf al-Fihri in al-Andalus. The Fihrids welcomed the fall of...
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  • Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman Al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba Al-Qasim ibn Rabi'a ibn Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt al-Thaqafi Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri Al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi...
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  • Dhahab River (redirect from Butnan Habib)
    Butnan (the lowland valley) or Butnan Habib (the lowlands of Habib), after the Muslim commander Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri, who conquered the area during the...
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  • Qaysi troops to back the pro-Zubayrid governor of Damascus, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri. At the 684 Battle of Marj Rahit, the Qays were crushed by the...
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    companion, Muhammad ibn Maslama, sided with Uthman about the letter, and suspected Marwan, while a report by the Sunni historian al-Baladhuri (d. 892)...
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  • Circesium (redirect from Al-Qarqisiya)
    Muslim army commanded by Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri, himself dispatched by the Muslim governor of Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), Iyad ibn Ghanm. Though many Muslim...
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    including Uthman ibn Hayyan al-Murri in 715, Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm in 720–721, Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri in 723, and Hisham's...
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    appointed Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri over the non-Arabs and al-Walid ibn Uqba over the Arabs. Iyad died in 641 and was succeeded by Sa'id ibn Hidhyam al-Jumahi...
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  • against the Umayyad governor. In late 744 or early 745, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, scion of the illustrious Fihrid dynasty, raised a revolt in...
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    undertaken by Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria. Mu'awiya's general Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri first moved against the Byzantine portion of the country: he besieged...
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    Harran's surrender and dispatched Safwan ibn Mu'attal al-Sulami and his own kinsman Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to seize Samosata, which also ended in a...
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  • Uthman instructed the governor of Syria, Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, to send Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri in an expedition to Byzantine-controlled Armenia—although...
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    town is mentioned among the settlements conquered by general Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri during the reign of Umayyad Caliph Mu'awiya I (661–680). During...
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    Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan would join Amr for the conquest. The Muslims had a force of 17,000 men. The vanguard was led by Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri. The vanguard...
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  • invaded in 645–46 with an even larger Arab force led by general Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri who eventually gave the Arabs complete control of the region of...
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    Principality of Iberia Khazar Khaganate Inconclusive 643-655 Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri's invasions of Georgia [ka] Principality of Iberia Rashidun Caliphate...
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    city, while the rest went after Circesium. Iyadh in turn sent Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri toward Circesium taking with him a particular division of Banu...
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    commanders in al-Andalus, including Abd al-Aziz's top lieutenant Habib ibn Abi Ubayd al-Fihri. Al-Tabari held that Habib delivered Abd al-Aziz's head to...
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  • Byzantium at Marj Rahit on 24 April 634, he dispatched Busr and Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to raid the villages of the Ghouta oasis surrounding Damascus...
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  • la Roche Guy IV of Spoleto Guy of Hauteville Guy Pallavicini Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri Al-Hadi Haemimontus Hagia Irene Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia, Drama...
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  • supporters in Syria, led by the Qurayshite governor of Damascus, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, and the Qays tribes of Qinnasrin, and afterward retook Egypt...
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  • For example, Arab commander Amr ibn al-As owned multiple properties in Damascus. Arab commander Habib b. Maslama al-Fihri also settled in Damascus, where...
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