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    The Battle of the Camel (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة اَلْجَمَلِ, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jamal) took place outside of Basra, Iraq, in 36 AH (656 CE). The battle...
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  • actions in the First Fitna (civil war) of the time. Her participation in the Battle of the Camel is widely considered her most significant sign of such contempt...
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    The two parties fought the Battle of the Camel in December 656, from which Ali emerged victorious. Afterward, Mu'awiya, the incumbent governor of Syria...
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    A camel (from Latin: camelus and Greek: κάμηλος (kamēlos) from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive...
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  • Aisha (redirect from Event of Ifk)
    She participated in the battle by giving speeches and leading troops on the back of her camel. She ended up losing the battle, but her involvement and...
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  • from his marriage with Khawla (daughter of the Fazara chief Manzur b. Zabban). He was killed in the Battle of Camel, after which, his wife, Khawla, married...
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    his accession in the Battle of the Camel (656). The orientalist Laura Veccia Vaglieri (d. 1989) believes that Ali refused to lead the rebellion but still...
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    Ali (redirect from Ali in the scriptures)
    of the Camel in 656. Elsewhere, Mu'awiya, whom Ali had just removed from the governorship of Syria, fought against Ali the inconclusive Battle of Siffin...
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  • Battle of Basra may refer to: Battle of the Camel (656), conflict over succession to the caliphate Battle of Basra (871), Zanj capture of Basra Battle...
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  • Amr ibn Jarmuz (category Assassins of the medieval Islamic world)
    soldier of caliph Ali, who assassinated Zubayr ibn al-Awwam shortly after the Battle of the Camel, after Zubayr withdrew from the army before the battle began...
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     656–661) and the largely Qurayshite partisans of A'isha, Marwan sided with the latter at the Battle of the Camel. Marwan later served as governor of Medina...
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  • important role in the Battle of Uhud and the Battle of the Camel, in which he died. According to Sunnis, he was given the title "the Generous" by Muhammad...
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    anti-cavalry weapon of the Achaemenid Persians in the Battle of Thymbra. The first recorded use of the camel as a military animal was by the Arab king Gindibu...
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    of men and camels behind them, and were able to drive the dervishes out of the square and compel them to retreat from the field. The battle was short,...
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    against Uthman's killers. Although Ali defeated the rebellion of Talha and Zubayr in the Battle of the Camel in 656, his war against Mu'awiya resulted in...
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    in the Battle of the Camel (656) and the protracted Battle of Siffin (657). The latter fight ended in arbitration and led to the creation of the Kharijites...
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    immediately after his accession in the Battle of the Camel (656). Laura Veccia Vaglieri (d. 1989) notes that Ali refused to lead the rebellion but sympathized...
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    The Imperial Camel Corps Brigade (ICCB) was a camel-mounted infantry brigade that the British Empire raised in December 1916 during the First World War...
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  • Utba ibn Abi Sufyan (category 7th-century Umayyad governors of Egypt)
    Muhammad's cousin, Caliph Ali (r. 656–661), in the Battle of the Camel near Basra in 656. In the immediate aftermath of Ali's victory, Utba took refuge with A'isha...
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    as sharp criticism of the predecessors of Ali, and disapproval of the triumvirate who revolted against Ali in the Battle of the Camel in 656, namely, Talha...
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  • Ammar ibn Yasir (category Sahabah who participated in the battle of Uhud)
    hostilities towards each other are debatable. Prior to the events of the Battle of the Camel, a shura was set up in an attempt to decide a successor...
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  • Abd Allah ibn Saba' (category People executed by the Rashidun Caliphate)
    Umar's accounts and the role of the Saba'iyya at the Battle of the Camel. Concerning Ibn Saba' religious beliefs, particularly that of the Saba'iyya, W. F...
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  • Malik al-Ashtar (category People of the First Fitna)
    At the age of 70, Malik al-Ahstar was the main cavalry and commander of the army of Ali Ibn Abi Talib in the Battle of Jamal (Battle of the Camel). After...
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  • Abd-Allah ibn Aamir Hadhrami (category Year of death unknown)
    was the governor of the Arabic city of Kufah during the 7th century. He had a prominent role in the Battle of the Camel. Restatement of History of Islam...
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  • Look up Camel, camel, cámel, or camèl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A camel is a hoofed mammal. Camel may also refer to: Camel Meriem (born 1979)...
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    Rashidun Caliphate (category States and territories established in the 630s)
    of the Camel. Ali emerged victoriously and the dispute was settled. The eminent companions of Muhammad, Talha, and Zubayr, were killed in the battle and...
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  • Zayd ibn Suhan (category Companions of the Prophet)
    in the Battle of the Camel by Amr Al Yathribi. Zayd originated from the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia. His grave and shrine lies in the village of Malkiya...
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    Duldul (mule) (category Animals in the medieval Islamic world)
    order to feed her the barley had to be put into her mouth. According to the S̲h̲īʿī tradition, ʿAlī rode upon her at the battle of the Camel and at Ṣiffīn...
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    Uthman's killers. Ali defeated the rebellion of Aisha, Talha, and Zubayr in the Battle of the Camel in 656, but the Battle of Siffin against Mu'awiya in 657...
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  • Sulayman ibn Surad (category People of the Second Fitna)
    partisans of Kufa. Although his participation in the Battle of the Camel (November 656) is disputed, he had fought alongside caliph Ali at the Battle of Siffin...
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