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| Conquest of Mecca | |||||||||
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| Part of the Muslim–Quraysh War | |||||||||
 Muhammad entering the Kaaba and destroying the Arabian idols (Bazil's Hamla-i Haydari, 1808) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Muslims |
 Quraysh | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 10,000 | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 2[1] | 13[2] | ||||||||
  Mecca Location within present-day Saudi Arabia | |||||||||
The conquest of Mecca (Arabic: فَتْحُ مَكَّةَ Fatḥu Makkah, alternatively, "liberation of Mecca") was a military campaign undertaken by Muhammad and his companions during the Muslim–Quraysh War. They led the early Muslims in an advance on the Quraysh-controlled city of Mecca in December 629 or January 630[3][4] (10–20 Ramadan, 8 AH).[3] The fall of the city to Muhammad formally marked the end of the conflict between his followers and the Quraysh tribal confederation.
- ^ Akram, Agha Ibrahim (10 August 2007). Khalid Bin Al-Walid: Sword of Allah: A Biographical Study of One of the Greatest Military Generals in History. Maktabah Publications. p. 57. ISBN 978-0954866525.
- ^ Akram 2007, p. 61.
- ^ a b F.R. Shaikh, Chronology of Prophetic Events, Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., London, 2001 pp. 3, 72, 134–136. Shaikh places the departure on Wednesday, 29 November. This is apparently calculated using the tabular Islamic calendar and then substituting Ramadan for Sha'ban in an (ineffective) attempt to allow for intercalation.
- ^ Gabriel, Richard A. (2014), Muhammad: Islam's First Great General, University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 167, 176, ISBN 9780806182506