Author: Mahmūd Aḥmad G̲ẖaz̤anfarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Commanders of the Muslim Army
Author: Mahmūd Aḥmad G̲ẖaz̤anfarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Commanders of the Muslim Army : Among the Companions of the Prophet (P.B.U.H)
Author: Mahmood Ahmad GhadanfarPublisher:
ISBN: 9789960897264
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book is about the lives of those noble Companions and Commanders who led the Islamic forces in the violent and strife-tom arenas of conflict against the Kuffar (disbelievers). They struck terror in the hearts of the enemy and the strong forts and palaces of Caesar and Chosroes trembled before their might. However, in this compilation, there are not only the stories of the battlefields but also the stories of bravery and courage, valor and piety, austerity and simplicity. These stories describe the true circumstances that led the Muslims to fight more powerful enemies than they were at that time.
Great Muslim Army Commanders
Author: S. E. Al DjazairiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781973543237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
During the early modern times (roughly the so-called Renaissance Period) (began late 15th century), Western Christendom attained much higher levels of power and sophistication including militarily. Its medieval crusading fervour had hardly abated, though. In the vast conflict which opposed Islam and Christendom by land and sea, some territories in particular: North Africa and the Holy Sites of Makkah and Madinah became particularly threatened.It was at this particular junction that arose a number of Muslim army leaders of incomparable stature: Kheir Eddin Barbarossa, Selim I, and Sultan Abd al Malek are amongst such figures. To them and others this volume is dedicated.
Muhammad
Author: Richard A. GabrielPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier. Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous accounts of Muhammad the Prophet, this is the first military biography of the man. In Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General, Richard A. Gabriel shows us a warrior never before seen in antiquity—a leader of an all-new religious movement who in a single decade fought eight major battles, led eighteen raids, and planned thirty-eight other military operations. Gabriel’s study portrays Muhammad as a revolutionary who introduced military innovations that transformed armies and warfare throughout the Arab world. Gabriel analyzes the environment in which Muhammad lived and the religion he inspired as they relate to his military achievements. Gabriel explains how Muhammad changed the social composition of Arab armies by replacing traditional ways of fighting with a new command structure. Muhammad’s transformation of Arab warfare enabled his successors to establish the core of the Islamic empire—an accomplishment that, Gabriel argues, would have been militarily impossible without Muhammad’s innovations. Richard A. Gabriel challenges existing scholarship on Muhammad’s place in history and offers a viewpoint not previously attempted.
commanders of the muslim army
Author: hahmood ahmad ghadanfarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : ar
Pages : 392
Book Description
Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century
Author: Xavier BougarelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474249434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent. How are these combatants considered in existing historiography? Over the past few decades, research on war has experienced a wide-reaching renewal, with increased emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of war, and a desire to reconstruct the experience and viewpoint of the combatants themselves. This volume reintroduces the question of religious belonging and practice into the study of Muslim combatants in European armies in the 20th century, focusing on the combatants' viewpoint alongside that of the administrations and military hierarchy.
The Sword of Allah
Author: Ibn KathirPublisher: Books.Dar-Salam.Org
ISBN: 9781948117272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Sword of Allah: Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns Khalid bin Al-Waleed was one of the greatest generals in history, and one of the greatest heroes of history. Besides him, Genghis Khan was the only other general to remain undefeated in his entire military life. Khalid was sent to the Persian Empire with an army consisting of 18,000 volunteers to conquer the richest province of the Persian empire, Euphrates region of lower Mesopotamia, (present day Iraq). Khalid entered lower Mesopotamia with this force. He won quick victories in four consecutive battles: the Battle of Chains, fought in April 633; the Battle of River, fought in the third week of April 633; the Battle of Walaja, fought in May 633 (where he successfully used a double envelopment manoeuvre), and Battle of Ullais, fought in the mid-May 633. In the last week of May 633, al-Hira, the regional capital city of lower Mesopotamia, fell to Khalid. The inhabitants were given peace on the terms of annual payment of jizya (tribute) and agreed to provide intelligence for Muslims. After resting his armies, in June 633, Khalid laid siege to Anbar which despite fierce resistance fell in July 633 as a result of the siege imposed on the town. Khalid then moved towards the south, and captured Ein ul Tamr in the last week of July, 633.
War on Two Fronts
Author: Christopher HughesPublisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612000932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A vivid memoir of the conflict’s early years combined with “an insightful review of our problems in Iraq” (Publishers Weekly). Winner of The Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. Shortly after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war in Iraq became the most confusing in US history, the high command not knowing who to fight, who was attacking coalition troops, and who among the different Iraqi groups were fighting each other. Yet there were a few astute officers like Lt. Col. Christopher Hughes, commanding the 2nd Battalion of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, who sensed the complexity of the task from the beginning. In War on Two Fronts, Lt. Col. Hughes writes movingly of his “no-slack” battalion at war in Iraq. The war got off to a bang for Hughes when his brigade command tent was fragged, leaving him briefly in charge of the brigade. Amid the nighttime confusion of fourteen casualties, a nearby Patriot missile blasted off, panicking nearly everyone while mistakenly bringing down a British Tornado fighter-bomber. As Hughes’ battalion forged into Iraq, they successfully liberated the city of Najaf, securing the safety of Grand Ayatollah Sistani and the Mosque of Ali while showing an acute cultural awareness that caught the world’s attention. It was a feat that landed Hughes within the pages of Time, Newsweek, and other publications. The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne then implemented creative programs in the initial postwar occupation, including harvesting the national wheat and barley crops while combating nearly invisible insurgents. Conscious that an army battalion is a community of some seven-hundred-plus households, and that when a unit goes off to war, the families are intimately connected in our internet age, Hughes makes clear the strength of those connections and how morale is best supported at both ends. Transferred to Washington after his tour, Hughes also writes an illuminating account of the herculean efforts of many in the Pentagon to work around the corporatist elements of its bureaucracy in order to better understand counterinsurgency and national reconstruction, which Lawrence of Arabia described as “like learning to eat soup with a knife.” This book helps explain the sources of mistakes made—and the process needed to chart a successful strategy. Written with candor and no shortage of humor, mixed with brutal scenes of combat and frank analysis, it is a must-read for all who seek insight into our current situation in the Mideast.
Slave Soldiers and Islam
Author: Daniel PipesPublisher: Daniel Pipes
ISBN: 0300024479
Category : Armies
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
De islamiske religiøse idealer medførte, at muslimerne ikke gerne engagerede sig i krig eller regeringsanliggender, hvorfor de gennem tiderne systematisk skaffede sig udenlandske slaver, som blev uddannet og anvendt som professionelle soldater, første gang omkring 815-820, f.eks. er det berømte tyrkiske janitscharkorps, der bestod af osmanniske elitesoldater, skabt i det sene 1300 tal af kristne krigsfanger.
Great Women of Islam
Author: Mahmood Ahmad GhadanfarPublisher:
ISBN: 9781591440383
Category : Muslim women
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description