Battle of Dhi Qar

The Battle of Dhi Qar (Arabic: يوم ذي قار‎) was a pre-Islamic battle fought between Arabs in southern Iraq and a Sassanid Persian army. The dating of the event is disputed. The Encyclopedia Iranica entry on the subject says:

"According to certain Muslim traditions, the battle took place in the year 1/623 or 2/624... Ebn Ḥabīb... dated it earlier, between 606 and 622, but modern scholars have narrowed this range to 604-11" [1]

Battle of Dhi Qar معركة ذي قار
Date 604-11 Location Sasanian Empire (modern Dhi Qar Governorate, south of Iraq) Result Arab victory
Belligerents
Sassanid Persia Pro-Sasanian Arabs	Arab tribesmen of Bakr ibn Wa'il
Commanders and leaders
Iyas ibn Qabisah al-Ta'i Hamrez al-Tasatturi Al-Nu'man bin Zara'a Khalid bin Yazid al-Buhrani Khanabarin Hamarz Hormuzan	Hani' bin Qubaisah Hantala bin Tha'laba al-Ajli Abd Amr bin Bashar al-Dhubai'y Jabala bin Ba'ith al-Yashkury Al-Harith bin Wa'la al-Thahli Al-Harith bin Rabi'a al-Taimi
Strength
2,000 Persian soldiers, with 3,000 Arabs[1]	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Many

The battle of Dhū-Qār is reported in many classical works of Arabic history and literature. The longest, but not necessarily most representative, version is Bishr ibn Marwān al-Asadī's Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān (Arabic: حرب بني شيبان مع كسرى آنوشروان‎).[2]

References

1. Landau-Tasseron, Ella. "ḎŪ QĀR". ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
2. Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrá Ānūshirwān, ed. by Muḥammad Jāsim Ḥammādī Mashhadānī (Baghdad: s.n., 1988; first publ. Bombay 1887); Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), p. 163.

Sources

• Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.