• Al-ʿAwāṣim (Arabic: العواصم, "the defences, fortifications"; sing. al-ʿāṣimah, اَلْـعَـاصِـمَـة, "protectress") was the Arabic term used to refer to the...
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    Abd al-Malik in 692. In 786, the jund of al-Awasim and al-Thughur were established from the northern frontier region of Qinnasrin by Caliph Harun al-Rashid...
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    attracted converts from Greater Khorasan, an area that would become known as al-ʻAwāṣim in the ninth century CE. The ribat fortifications later served to protect...
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  • command over the frontier provinces with the Byzantine Empire (the al-Thughur wa al-'Awasim), with his seat at Manbij. In this capacity, in July-August 803...
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  • on the legal rulings of the Qur'an according to the Maliki school. Al-'Awasim min al-Qawasim (العواصم من القواصم) or "Defence Against Disaster", is a history...
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    Southern Italy Emirate of Sicily Emirate of Bari Malta Al-Jazira (Arab Mesopotamia) Al-Awasim Arab Iran Arabistan Khamseh Arab Central Asian Arab Khorasan...
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    reconquered, to the Muslim conquests: by the 640s, Cilicia formed the border (Al-Awasim) between Byzantium and the new Arab Rashidun Caliphate and its successors...
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    Mardaites (redirect from Al-Jarajima)
    Mardaites gained a semi-independent status around the Nur Mountains within al-ʿAwāṣim, the Byzantine-Arab border region. They initially agreed to serve as mercenaries...
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    this time as an advance strongpoint within the fortified zone of the al-ʿAwāṣim, stretching from Tarsus northeast to Malatya, and as an assembly point...
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    University. Akıncı: (Turkish) "raider", a later replacement for ghāzī al-'Awāsim: the Syrio-Anatolian frontier area between the Byzantine and various caliphal...
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