Acre comes under the rule of the …
Years: 638 - 638
Acre comes under the rule of the Rashidun Caliphate beginning in 638, following the defeat of the imperial army of Heraclius by the Muslim army of Khalid ibn al-Walid in the Battle of Yarmouk, and the capitulation of the Christian city of Jerusalem to the Caliph Umar,
The actual conquest of Acre According to the early Muslim chronicler al-Baladhuri was led by Shurahbil ibn Hasana, one of the main field commanders during the Muslim conquest of Syria, and the city likely surrendered without resistance.
Locations
People
- 'Amr ibn al-'As
- Aishah
- Ali
- Heraclius
- Khālid ibn al-Walīd
- Muawiyah I
- Rostam Farrokhzād
- Theodore
- Theodore Trithyrius
- Umar
- Uthman ibn Affan
- Yazdegerd III
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Zoroastrians
- Armenian people
- Jews
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Christians, Maronite
- Christians, Monophysite
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Christianity, Chalcedonian
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Islam
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Filastin (Caliphal Palestine)
- Christians, Monotheletist
Topics
- Migration Period
- Arab-Byzantine Wars
- Muslim Conquest of Persia
- Byzantine-Muslim War of 633-42
- Muslim Conquest of the Levant
Commodoties
Subjects
- Commerce
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Mayhem
- Faith
- Government
- Custom and Law
- Technology
- Movements
- Theology
- Christology
