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Muslim (Rashidun) Conquest of Syria/Levant (634-638 CE)

Rashidun armies take Byzantine Syria; part of the early Arab conquests (Kennedy 2007; Donner 1981).

Islamic

Event Details

  • Date: 634 CE-638 CE
  • Type: conquest
  • Civilizations: islamic

Description

Rashidun armies take Byzantine Syria; part of the early Arab conquests (Kennedy 2007; Donner 1981).

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Dates 634-638; outcome: Muslim victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • No aggregate casualty total asserted.
  • PRIMARY-SOURCE (read 2026-10-12): al-Baladhuri (Hitti 1916): Ajnadin (contents p. 174): "about 100,000 Greeks took part"; al-Yarmuk in Rajab, year 15 AH, with 24,000 Muslims and some 70,000 Byzantine dead (pp. 207-208); after al-Yarmuk Heraclius fled from Antioch to Constantinople with his "Peace unto thee, O Syria" farewell. Claims, not measurements.

Confidence

medium (dates/outcome). Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • baladhuri-hitti-1916-ia [PRIMARY-READ] al-Baladhuri, Philip K. Hitti (transl.) (1916). al-Baladhuri, The Origins of the Islamic State (Futuh al-Buldan), part 1, transl. Philip K. Hitti (Columbia University, 1916); archive.org scan, read. Columbia University / Longmans (scan: Internet Archive). https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175260. Read 2026-10-12; location: pp. 174 (Ajnadin, per contents), 207-208 (al-Yarmuk), ~411 (al-Kadisiyah), 471ff. (Nihawand, per contents).
  • kennedy2007-great-arab-conquests [formal] Hugh Kennedy (2007). The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3275651W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • donner1981-early-islamic-conquests [formal] Fred M. Donner (1981). The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton University Press. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13531000W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • wp-muslim-conquest-of-syria [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Muslim conquest of Syria (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Syria. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

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conquest · 634 CE-638 CE

Muslim (Rashidun) Conquest of Syria/Levant (634-638 CE)

Rashidun armies take Byzantine Syria; part of the early Arab conquests (Kennedy 2007; Donner 1981).

Evidence: Primary text read Draft estimate

What the record says

  • Unverified (Wikipedia-compiled) Dates 634-638; outcome: Muslim victory (Wikipedia infobox).
  • Note No aggregate casualty total asserted.
  • Primary text PRIMARY-SOURCE (read 2026-10-12): al-Baladhuri (Hitti 1916): Ajnadin (contents p. 174): "about 100,000 Greeks took part"; al-Yarmuk in Rajab, year 15 AH, with 24,000 Muslims and some 70,000 Byzantine dead (pp. 207-208); after al-Yarmuk Heraclius fled from Antioch to Constantinople with his "Peace unto thee, O Syria" farewell. Claims, not measurements.

Confidence. medium (dates/outcome).

Where it sits

Sources and evidence

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