Al-ʿAwāṣim (Arabic: العواصم, "the defences, fortifications"; sing. al-ʿāṣimah, اَلْـعَـاصِـمَـة, "protectress") was the Arabic term used to refer to the...

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...

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...

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...

presided over all of the districts, while in 785 Harun al-Rashid added the new district of Jund al-'Awasim in the north, encompassing the frontier zone with...

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...

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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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...

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...