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...in Iraq. The town stands on the original 7th-century site of Basra, now located 8 miles (13 km) to the northeast. At Al-Zubayr can still be seen the remains of the mosque dedicated to the memory of Zubayr, one of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad who was killed in the Battle of the Camel (656), fought outside the town walls. Over the centuries the city of Basra moved progressively eastward...
...him. The Battle of the Camel (December 656), pitting the forces of ʿAlī against those of ʿĀʾishah, one of Muḥammad’s widows, and Ṭalḥah and az-Zubayr, prominent Companions of the Prophet, temporarily secured ʿAlī’s position but inaugurated civil war. Muʿāwiyah, another Umayyad from Mecca and governor of Syria, took up...
...a three-way contest between ʿAlī’s party in Iraq; a coalition of important Quraysh families in Mecca, including Muhammad’s wife ʿĀʾishah and Ṭalḥah and Zubayr; and the party of Muʿāwiyah, the governor of Syria and a member of ʿUthmān’s clan, the Banū Umayyah. Ostensibly the conflict focused on whether ʿUthmān had...
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