Battle of Firaz

Battle of Firaz

Date	January 634 AD
Location	Faraz, Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Result	Decisive Muslim victory
Territorial changes	Mesopotamia annexed by Muslims

Belligerents

Commanders

Strength

15,000

hard to estimate, but around 150,000^[1]

Casualties and losses

Minimal

Unknown but high

The Battle of Firaz was the last battle of the Muslim Arab commander Khalid ibn al-Walid in Mesopotamia (Iraq) against the combined forces of the Byzantine Roman Empire, Sassanid Persian Empire, and Christian Arabs. Their combined forces were said to be up to ten times larger^[1] than Khalid's force of 15,000^[2] according to Muslim sources.

The result of the battle was a decisive victory for Khalid and the first Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia. The Muslim conquest of the Persian Empire was complete after their next victory at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah.

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Muslim conquest of the Persian Empire

Chains – River – Walaja – Ullais – Hira – Al-Anbar – Ein-ul-tamr – Daumat-ul-Jandal – Muzayyah – Saniyy – Zumail – Firaz – Bridge – Al-Qādisiyyah – Nihawānd

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Early Conflicts
Mutah – Tabouk – Dathin – Firaz
Arab Conquest of Roman Syria
Qarteen – Bosra – Ajnadayn – Marj-al-Rahit – Fahl – Damascus - Maraj-al-Debaj - Emesa - Yarmouk – Jerusalem - Hazir – Aleppo
Arab Conquest of Roman Egypt
Heliopolis – Nikiou
Umayyad Conquest of North Africa
Carthage
Arab Invasions of Anatolia and Constantinople
Iron Bridge - Kahramanmaraş – Masts – 1st Constantinople – Syllaeum – 2nd Constantinople – Akroinon
Arab Campaigns in Southern Italy
Later Byzantine Campaigns

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Conquest of Arabia
Uhud – Mu'tah – Mecca – Hunayn – Ta'if
Ridda Wars
Yamama – Zafar – Daumat-ul-Jandal – Buzakha –
Ghamra – Naqra
Conquest of the Persian Empire
Chains – River – Walaja – Ullais – Hira – Al-Anbar – Ein-ul-tamr – Daumat-ul-Jandal – Muzayyah – Saniyy – Zumail – Firaz
Conquest of Roman Syria
Firaz – Qarteen – Bosra – Ajnadayn – Marj-al-Rahit – Fahl – Damascus - Maraj-al-Debaj - Emesa - Yarmouk - Jerusalem – Hazir - Aleppo
Campaigns in Anatolia
Iron Bridge - Kahramanmaraş

^ ^a ^b Campaigns in Western Iraq, "Khalifa Abu Bakr", Companion of the Prophet. Virtual library of Witness-Pioneer.
^ A.I. Akram, The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns, Nat. Publishing. House, Rawalpindi (1970) ISBN 0-7101-0104-X.