Battle of Harrah

Author: Muhammad Ali Chenarani

Translator: Ahmad Rezwani

Publisher: Islamic Research Foundation Astan Quds Razavi

An analytical look at the historic account of the invasion and horrific plunder of the holy city of Medina in the year 63 AH by the army of Yazid b. Mu'awiyah.

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Chapters

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. A Great Disaster
  4. Causes of the Revolt
  5. Open Confrontation of the People of Medina against Umayyid Government
  6. Dispatch of the Syrian Army to Medina
  7. Yazīd's Orders to the Commanders of the Syrian Army
  8. The Itinerary of the Syrian Army
  9. The Syrian Army Camps near Medina
  10. ‘Abd Allāh b. Hanzala, Commander of Medinan Forces
  11. Confrontation of the Syrian Army and the Medinan Forces
  12. The Syrian's Defeat during the Early Stages
  13. Marwān b. Hakam's Role in Penetration of Syrian Army into Medina
  14. Wearing out of Medinan Forces before the Syrian Army
  15. The Syrian Army’s Savage Invasion of Medinan Houses
  16. Crimes committed in the Prophet’s Holy Shrine and Mosque (Masjid al-Nabi)
  17. Imam Zayn al-‘Abidīn’s (‘a) Stance in the Uprising of Medinans
  18. The Medina Uprising; a Right or Wrong Movement?
  19. Tribes that Actively Participated in the Medina Uprising
  20. Those Who were Executed
  21. Those who didn’t take part in the uprising
  22. The Aftermaths of the Battle of Harrah
  23. Death of Yazīd b. Mu‘āwiyah
  24. Bibliography

First published on al-islam.org.

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