Battle of Dhi Qar
| Battle of Dhi Qar معركة ذي قار | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
  | Arab tribesmen of Bakr ibn Wa'il | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Iyas ibn Qabisah al-Ta'i Hamrez al-Tasatturi Al-Nu'man bin Zara'a Khalid bin Yazid al-Buhrani Khanabarin Hamarz Hormuzan |
Hani' bin Qubaisah Hantala bin Tha'laba al-Ajli Abd Amr bin Bashar al-Dhubai'y Jabala bin Ba'ith al-Yashkury Al-Harith bin Wa'la al-Thahli Al-Harith bin Rabi'a al-Taimi | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,000 Persian soldiers, with 3,000 Arabs[1] | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Many | |||||||
The Battle of Dhi Qar (Arabic: يوم ذي قار) was a pre-Islamic battle fought between Arabs in southern Iraq and a Sassanid Persian army, c. 609.
The battle of Dhū-Qār is reported in many classical works of Arabic history and literature. The longest, but not necessarily most representative, version is Bishr ibn Marwān al-Asadī's Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān (Arabic: حرب بني شيبان مع كسرى آنوشروان).[2]
References
- ^ Landau-Tasseron, Ella. "ḎŪ QĀR". ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- ^ Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān, ed. by Muḥammad Jāsim Ḥammādī Mashhadānī (Baghdad: s.n., 1988; first publ. Bombay 1887); Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), p. 163.
Sources
- Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.
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