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    The Battle of the Camel (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة اَلْجَمَلِ, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jamal) took place outside of Basra, Iraq, in 36 AH (656 CE). The battle...
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  • actions in the First Fitna (civil war) of the time. Her participation in the Battle of the Camel is widely considered her most significant sign of such contempt...
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    The two parties fought the Battle of the Camel in December 656, from which Ali emerged victorious. Afterward, Mu'awiya, the incumbent governor of Syria...
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    A camel (from Latin: camelus and Greek: κάμηλος (kamēlos) from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive...
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  • Aisha (redirect from Event of Ifk)
    She participated in the battle by giving speeches and leading troops on the back of her camel. She ended up losing the battle, but her involvement and...
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  • from his marriage with Khawla (daughter of the Fazara chief Manzur b. Zabban). He was killed in the Battle of Camel, after which, his wife, Khawla, married...
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  • his accession in the Battle of the Camel (656). The orientalist Laura Veccia Vaglieri (d. 1989) believes that Ali refused to lead the rebellion but still...
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  • Look up Camel, camel, cámel, or camèl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A camel is a hoofed mammal. Camel or Camels may also refer to: Camel Meriem (born...
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  • Amr ibn Jarmuz (category Assassins of the medieval Islamic world)
    soldier of caliph Ali, who assassinated Zubayr ibn al-Awwam shortly after the Battle of the Camel, after Zubayr withdrew from the army before the battle began...
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    Ali (redirect from Ali in the scriptures)
    of the Camel in 656. Elsewhere, Mu'awiya, whom Ali had just removed from the governorship of Syria, fought against Ali the inconclusive Battle of Siffin...
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