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...

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...

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...

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...

(al-Awasim) in order to more effectively gain control of Asia Minor. However, with the Caliphate embroiled in a succession struggle following Harun al-Rashid's...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (Arabic: هَارُون ٱبْنِ ٱلْمَهْدِيّ; c. 763 or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (Arabic:...

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...

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...

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...

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

that it was located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon near Aleppo in the al-'Awasim area. He described the village as a "very ancient place" near which was...

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...

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...

assiduously strengthening the frontier with new districts and strongholds (al-Awasim), specifically from Cilicia through Germanikeia to Melitene. There was...

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

Ottoman-Mamluk relations, being a buffer state located in the Mamluk al-'Awasim frontier zone. Cilicia were one of the last regions of Anatolia to fall...

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...

Al-Ḥadath al-Ḥamrā' (Arabic for "Hadath the Red") or Adata (Greek: Ἃδατα) was a town and fortress near the Taurus Mountains (modern southeastern Turkey)...

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...

Abū al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʾmūn (Arabic: أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, romanized: Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14...

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...

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...