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The siege continues until November 26, when …
Years: 683 - 683
November
The siege continues until November 26, when news of Yazid's death on the eleventh reaches the besiegers.
Husayn now enters into negotiations with Ibn al-Zubayr.
Although the Umayyad court at Damascus promptly declares Yazid's sickly young son, Mu'awiya II, as Caliph, Umayyad authority practically collapses in the provinces and proves shaky even in the Umayyads' home province of Syria.
Husayn is therefore willing to acknowledge Ibn al-Zubayr as Caliph, provided that he will issue a pardon and follow him to Syria.
Ibn al-Zubayr refuses the last demand, since this would place him under the control of the Syrian elites, and Husayn with his army departs for Syria.
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Years: 683 - 683
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