the Hijra Islamic dates are therefore termed in Arabic dates and written in English with AH (=Anno Hegirae) as a the Dictionary will note the camel which 'Ā'isha rode during it. : prefix or suffix in place of AD. Users of that, wherever possible, both AH and AD dates are given, the former always appearing first. Caliph See Khalifa. Bakr (q.v.), Talha b. 'Ubaydullāh al- Taymi (q.v.) and al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwām (q.v.) on the one hand, and the forces of 'Alī b. Abī Tālib (q.v.) on the other. It took place in 36/656. The forces of 'Ā'isha were defeated; Talha and, later, al-Zubayr, were killed and 'Ā'isha was taken prisoner though accorded enormous reverence as a wife of the Prophet

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the Hijra Islamic dates are therefore termed in Arabic dates and written in English with AH (=Anno Hegirae) as a the Dictionary will note the camel which 'Ā'isha rode during it.

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prefix or suffix in place of AD. Users of that, wherever possible, both AH and AD dates are given, the former always appearing first. Caliph See Khalifa. Bakr (q.v.), Talha b. 'Ubaydullāh al- Taymi (q.v.) and al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwām (q.v.) on the one hand, and the forces of 'Alī b. Abī Tālib (q.v.) on the other. It took place in 36/656. The forces of 'Ā'isha were defeated; Talha and, later, al-Zubayr, were killed and 'Ā'isha was taken prisoner though accorded enormous reverence as a wife of the Prophet

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Camel, Battle of the Battle fought near al-Basra (q.v.) between 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr (q.v.), Talha b. 'Ubaydullāh alTaymi (q.v.) and al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwām (q.v.) on the one hand, and the forces of 'Alī b. Abī Tālib (q.v.) on the other. It took place in 36/656. The forces of 'Ā'isha were defeated; Talha and, later, al-Zubayr, were killed and 'Ā'isha was taken prisoner though accorded enormous reverence as a wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and later sent back to Medina (q.v.). The battle was so-called because of the camel which 'Ā'isha rode during it.