- Marwan's partisans, led by
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad,
decisively defeated the pro-
Zubayrid Qaysi tribes, led by al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, at the
Battle of Marj...
- of
Khazir in
August 686,
Mukhtar and his
supporters were
slain by the
Zubayrids in
April 687
following a
series of battles.
Under the
leadership of Abd...
-
Qaysi tribes of the
Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) in 691. He then
conquered Zubayrid Iraq and
dispatched his general, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, to
Mecca where he...
-
revolutionary Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
seized Kufa
after expelling its
Zubayrid governor. As a result,
Zubayrid authority in Iraq was
restricted to
Basra and its surroundings...
- Husayn's killing. He took over Kufa in
October 685,
after expelling its
Zubayrid governor, and
later ordered the
execution of
those involved in the killing...
-
Bahdal of the Banu Kalb,
elected Marwan and
together they
defeated the pro-
Zubayrid Qays
tribes at the
Battle of Marj
Rahit in
August of that year. In the...
-
severely damaged by fire
during the
siege Belligerents Umayyad Caliphate Pro-
Zubayrid Meccans Commanders and
leaders Muslim ibn Uqba #
Husayn ibn
Numayr al-Sakuni...
- the
Zubayrids were two of the
Companions of the
Prophet dynasties which held the most
numerous lands and
estates within caliphate realm. The
Zubayrids regime...
- from the Azd
tribe who
fought in the
service of the Rashidun,
Umayyad and
Zubayrid caliphs between the mid-640s and his death. He
served successive terms...
- Umayyads. Afterward, he
fought at the
Battle of Marj
Rahit in 684
against pro-
Zubayrid tribes and
helped reconstitute the
Umayyad army. With this army he struggled...
