Sirah Atlas
Battles of Early Islam
From the first confrontation at Badr under the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to the campaigns of the Rightly Guided Caliphs: every battle told phase by phase, based on the classical sources, with an interactive map.
Seerah of the Prophet ﷺ
3- 624 CE / 2 AH
The Battle of Badr
The first major battle in Islamic history. On 17 Ramadan 2 AH (13 March 624), 313 Muslims under the leadership of the Prophet ﷺ defeated a Quraysh army of around 1,000 men at the w…
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The Battle of Uhud
The trying battle at the foot of Mount Uhud. On 7 Shawwal 3 AH (23 March 625), 700 Muslims under the leadership of the Prophet ﷺ fought a Quraysh army of 3,000 men, in a battle tha…
Open the interactive battle map - 627 CE / 5 AH
The Battle of the Trench
In Shawwal of the fifth year after the Hijrah (627 CE), a coalition of around 10,000 men, Quraysh, Ghatafan and their allies, besieged the city of Madinah. On the advice of Salman …
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The Rightly Guided Caliphs
13- 632 CE / 11 AH
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ against Tulayha at Buzakhah
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ leads the first army of the Ridda wars against the false prophet Tulayha al-Asadi and his Ghatafan allies. Four phases: the advance from Medina, the martyrdom…
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The Battle of al-Yamamah
The bloodiest battle of the Ridda wars. Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ against Musaylimah and the Banu Hanifa in al-Yamamah. Nine phases: the advance, the first clash, the retreat to the ca…
Open the interactive battle map - 633 CE / 12 AH
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁'s Iraq Campaign: Kazima to Hira
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ opens the Sasanian front. Six phases: the Battle of Chains at Kazima, the Battle of al-Madhar, the Battle of Walaja with its famous pincer movement, the Battl…
Open the interactive battle map - 636 CE / 15 AH
The Battle of Yarmuk
Khalid ibn al-Walid ﵁ defeats the great Byzantine army of Heraclius at the Yarmuk valley. Six phases: the approach, Khalid's feigned retreat, the ambush in the wadi, the fight at t…
Open the interactive battle map - 636 CE / 16 AH
The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah
Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas ﵁ defeats the main army of the Sassanid empire under Rustam ibn Farrukhzad. Six phases: the approach along the Atiq canal, the "Day of Disorder" with the first …
Open the interactive battle map - 637 CE / 17 AH
Siege and Fall of Jerusalem & the Umariyya Treaty
Abu ʿUbayda ibn al-Jarrah ﵁ surrounds Jerusalem; Patriarch Sophronius demands that only the caliph may conclude the treaty. ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab ﵁ travels in person from Medina to …
Open the interactive battle map - 642 CE / 21 AH
Nahavand — Fath al-Futuh
Nuʿman ibn Muqarrin al-Muzani ﵁ defeats the last organized Sassanid force in the mountain valley of Nahavand. Six phases: the approach through the mountain pass, the feigned retrea…
Open the interactive battle map - 647 CE / 27 AH
The Battle of Sbeitla (Sufetula)
ʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ﵁ leads twenty thousand horsemen from Egypt into Ifriqiya. At Sufetula (Sbeitla) they meet the army of the Patrician Gregory, exarch of Africa, with his Berber a…
Open the interactive battle map - 655 CE / 34 AH
The Battle of the Masts (Dhat al-Sawari)
Off the Lycian coast near Phoenix, the Muslims under ʿAbdullah ibn Saʿd ibn Abi Sarh ﵁ defeat the Byzantine fleet of Emperor Constans II. By binding their ships together with ropes…
Open the interactive battle map - 656 CE / 35 AH
Siege and Martyrdom of ʿUthman ﵁
Dhul-Hijjah 35 AH: rebels from Egypt, Kufa and Basra surround Medina and besiege the house of ʿUthman ﵁. Six phases: the gathering of the rebels, the encirclement and first demands…
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The Battle of the Camel (Jamal)
Outside Basra, ʿAli ﵁ meets the coalition of Talha ﵁, Zubayr ﵁ and Aisha ﵂, who have ridden out to demand retribution for the blood of ʿUthman ﵁. After three days of negotiations, …
Open the interactive battle map - 657 CE / 37 AH
The Battle of Siffin
On the Euphrates plain of Siffin, west of modern Raqqa, the armies of ʿAli ﵁ and Muʿawiya ﵁ meet in the largest pitched battle between Muslims in the first fitnah. Months of skirmi…
Open the interactive battle map - 658 CE / 38 AH
The Battle of Nahrawan
At the Nahrawan canal east of Mada'in, ʿAli ﵁ destroys the Khariji rebellion in a brief but decisive action. The Khawarij, discontented with the arbitration of Siffin, have gathere…
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History of Islam in West Africa
4- 1235 CE / 632 AH
The Battle of Kirina
Around 1235, Sundiata Keita and his Mande coalition defeated the Sosso army of Sumanguru Kanté on the plain of Kirina. The victory laid the foundation of the Mali Empire and became…
Open the interactive battle map - 1591 CE / 1000 AH
The Battle of Tondibi
On 13 March 1591, a Saadi-Moroccan expedition of four thousand men under Judar Pasha defeated the Songhai army of Askia Ishaq II at Tankondibogho near Tondibi, north of Gao. The fi…
- 1804 CE / 1219 AH
The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto
The first great battle of the Fulani Jihad. On 21 June 1804, the jama'a of Usman dan Fodio, under the command of Abdullahi dan Fodio and Umaru al-Kammu, defeated a more numerous ar…
Open the interactive battle map - 1808 CE / 1223 AH
The Battle of Alkalawa
The fall of Alkalawa, capital of Gobir, in October 1808. Under the command of Muhammad Bello, Ali Jedo, and Aliyu Jedo, the city was taken after three earlier failed assaults. Sult…
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