The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Plain of Siffin
Also known as Siffin
- field
- Natural landscape
The open ground beside the Euphrates where Ali and Muawiya fought the defining civil battle of early Islam. Gibbon presents it as a dusty arbitration field that split the caliphate.
- Type
- field
- Style
- Natural landscape
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 230
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The open ground beside the Euphrates where Ali and Muawiya fought the defining civil battle of early Islam. Gibbon presents it as a dusty arbitration field that split the caliphate.
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