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| Battle of Jalula | |||||||||
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| Part of the Muslim conquest of Sassanid empire | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Sasanian Empire (Sasanian army) |
Rashidun Caliphate (Rashidun army) | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Farrukhzad Mihran Razi † Piruz Khosrow Varaztirots[1] Hormuzan |
Hashim ibn Utba Al-Qa'qa'a ibn Amr at-Tamimi Tulayha | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 20,000 | 12,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Heavy[2] | Heavy[2] | ||||||||
The Battle of Jalula was fought between the Sasanian Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate soon after conquest of Ctesiphon.
After the capture of Ctesiphon, several detachments were immediately sent to the west to capture Qarqeesia and Heet the forts at the border of the Byzantine empire. Several strong Persian armies were still active north-east of Ctesiphon at Jalula and north of the Tigris at Tikrit and Mosul. The greatest threat of all was the Persian concentration at Jalula. After withdrawal from Ctesiphon, the Persian armies gathered at Jalula north-east of Ctesiphon, a place of strategic importance from where routes led to Iraq, Khurasan and Azerbaijan. The Persian forces at Jalula were commanded by General Mihran. His deputy was General Farrukhzad a brother of General Rostam Farrokhzād, who had commanded the Persian forces at the Battle of Qadisiyyah. As instructed by the Caliph Umar, Saad ibn Abi Waqqas reported all the matter to Umar. The Caliph decided to deal with Jalula first; his plan was first to clear the way north before any decisive action against Tikrit and Mosul. Umar appointed Hashim ibn Utba to the expedition to Jalula. Some time in April 637, Hashim marched at the head of 12,000 troops from Ctesiphon and after defeating the Persians at the Battle of Jalula, laid siege to Jalula for seven months, until it surrendered on the usual terms of Jizya.[3]
- ^ Parvaneh Poushariati, Decline and fall of the Sasanian Empire, I. B. Taurus, Londres et New York, 2011 ISBN 9781845116453, p. 469.
- ^ a b "ʿARAB ii. Arab conquest of Iran – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.IranicaOnline.org. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ^ The Muslim Conquest of Persia By A.I. Akram. Ch: 6 ISBN 978-0-19-597713-4