Command of the Syrian armies devolves to …
Years: 742 - 742
Command of the Syrian armies devolves to Thalaba ibn Salama al-Amili, who is of 'Yemenite' tribal stock, like most Andalusian Arabs, rather than the usual 'Qaysid' stock of the Syrians.
For the next few months, the Syrians remain bunkered down in Córdoba, while …
Locations
People
- Abd al-Malik ibn Katan al-Fihri
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri
- Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri
- Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
- Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab al-Mawsili
- Tha'laba ibn Salama al-Amili
- Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Moors
- Miknasa (Zenata Berber tribe)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Kharijite
- Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
- Syrian people
- Ifriqiya, Ummayad
- al-Andalus (Andalusia), Muslim-ruled
- Barghawata Confederacy (Masmuda Berber tribal confederacy)
