Al-ʿAwāṣim (Arabic: العواصم, "the defences, fortifications"; sing. al-ʿāṣimah, اَلْـعَـاصِـمَـة, "protectress") was the Arabic term used to refer to the...

Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786 the jund of al-Awasim and al-Thughur were established from the northern frontier region of Qinnasrin by Caliph Harun al-Rashid...

Mardaites gained a semi-independent status around the Nur Mountains within al-ʿAwāṣim, the Byzantine-Arab border region. They initially agreed to serve as mercenaries...

attracted converts from Greater Khorasan, an area that would become known as al-ʻAwāṣim in the ninth century CE. The ribat fortifications later served to protect...

on the legal rulings of the Qur'an according to the Maliki school. Al-'Awasim min al-Qawasim (العواصم من القواصم) or "Defence Against Disaster", is a history...

presided over all of the districts, while in 785 Harun al-Rashid added the new district of Jund al-'Awasim in the north, encompassing the frontier zone with...

command over the frontier provinces with the Byzantine Empire (the al-Thughur wa al-'Awasim), with his seat at Manbij. In this capacity, in July-August 803...

reconquered, to the Muslim conquests: by the 640s, Cilicia formed the border (Al-Awasim) between Byzantium and the new Arab Rashidun Caliphate and its successors...

University. Akıncı: (Turkish) "raider", a later replacement for ghāzī al-'Awāsim: the Syrio-Anatolian frontier area between the Byzantine and various caliphal...

this time as an advance strongpoint within the fortified zone of the al-ʿAwāṣim, stretching from Tarsus northeast to Malatya, and as an assembly point...

thughur in 786 by forming a second defensive line along northern Syria, the al-'Awasim, and was reputed to be spending alternating years leading the Hajj and...

ʿAlī Bakr Ḥasan, al-Qāhira: Dār al-ʿAwāṣim, 2010. “Claude Cahen, "La ‘Chronique des Ayyoubides’ d’al-Makīn b. al-ʿAmīd,” Bulletin d’études orientales...

south-eastern Anatolia and Armenia, which would eventually evolve into the al-'Awasim. It was exactly what Umar wanted, as he is quoted saying I wish there...

"harvest" or "summer expedition". akinji: "raider", a late synonym of ghāzī. al-'Awāsim: the Syrian-Anatolian border area between the Byzantine Empire and its...

Lammens, S.J., pg.179 Translation of Radd-i-Rawafid Al-‘Awasim min al-Qawasim, by Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-‘Arabi, pg.160 Islam: Beliefs and Institutions, by...

Ibn al-Salah's Muqaddima, titled Tanqih al-anzar. Ibn al-Wazir authored many works, including: Tanqih al-anzar. al-ʿAwasim wa al-Qawassim fi al-Dhab...

Ottoman-Mamluk relations, being a buffer state located in the Mamluk al-'Awasim frontier zone. In 1516, Selim I incorporated the beylik into the Ottoman...

Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid restored Manbij at the end of the 8th century, making it the capital of the frontier province of al-Awasim. Afterward, the city...

Prophethood by Muhammad Shafi Al-Awasim min al-Qawasim by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Taufa Ithna Ashari by Shah...

realm: the north Syrian provinces (Jund Hims, Jund Qinnasrin and the Jund al-Awasim) in a line running south of Homs to the coast near Tartus, and most of...

Bani Shibban, Al Rahba, Al Sileel, Al Jamea, Hisn Al Hawashim, Al Rughah, Hala Al Awasim, Al Nahda, Al Alaya, Al Qalaa, Al Sha'abiyah, Al Samirat, Harat...

mubashshirun Al-'Awasim Al-Azhar Shia Fatwa Al-Azhar University Al-Biruni Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani Al-Dinawari Al-Farabi Al-Farghani Al-Fil Al-Ghazali Al-Hajjaj...

Qinnasrin (a district in northern Syria) and of the newly created jund of al-Awasim, which comprised the Caliphate's borderlands with the Byzantine Empire...

Masjid al-Hisn (Arabic: مسجد الحصن, "The Fortress Mosque") was built between 717 and 720 CE by the Umayyad caliph Umar II, as part of his conversion of...

Ottoman-Mamluk relations, being a buffer state located in the Mamluk al-'Awasim frontier zone. In 1517, Selim I incorporated the beylik into the Ottoman...

Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (Arabic: أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh...

the lands east towards Aleppo were split from the district to form Jund al-'Awasim. For the remainder of the Abbasid period, Jund Qinnasrin consisted of...

(consul 501) al-Awasim Ayasuluk Hill Aydinids Azaz, 1030 Battle of Al-Aziz Aziz al-Dawla Babylon Fortress Babylon Fortress, Siege of Badr al-Hammami Baduarius...

The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public...

group escaped to Al-'Awasim, a buffer region between the Abbasid and the Byzantine Empires, what is now in south Turkey. In al Awasim, Gülnar began fighting...