START OF ERA OF CONQUEST The Arabian peninsula was surrounded by the two great Empire. On its North-Eastern side was the border of Persian Empire. At that time Iraq was under the control of Persian Empire. The
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Northern port of the peninsuaaila was bordered by the Byz; Empire (the Eastern Roman Er*nnpire). It consisted of Syria, Pal md Egypt. Byzantine was a Greek city on the Bosphorus Byzantines were named after thmis city. It was made the capital Eastern Roman Empire in 330 B.C. by Constantine, the Grea* lame of the city was changed la~«tt:er on to Constantinople after th& rf Constantine the Great. (Now it is known as Istanbul in Turkey
After suppressing ther; rebellions of internal tribe: Adjoining small states, Abu Ba_Zkr (Rad.A) turned his attention idjoining territories who were -Mdoing a lot of damage to Musli Islam and were continuously ccrsnspirmg against Muslims. The Siddique was not only to suppress their conspiracy against M but, as a matter of fact, to spresssad the universal message of Isia we will see later,, each expedLJition was advised first to invi £nemy towards Islam in a prseaceful way. If they accepter massage of Allah. They were C reated as brothers otherwise M had to accept their challenge.4 ’JHThe s,word was used as a last resc: self defence. Some of the maiam expeditions would be discussi following Hnes in hn’ef which t^ok p!t>ce during the lime of Abu Bakr (Rad.A). DESPATCH OF ELEVEN EXPEDITIONS For the purpose of con«nducting operations in the variou of the country, the map of _Arabia was divided and the e expeditions despatched as follo»»ws: (1) Khalid bin Walid was tzo undertake operations against T
and later on march aga iinst Malik ibr> Nuwairah.
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Ikrimah ibn Abu Ja=ihl was deputed to fight a_
Musaylamah.
Ibn Zubayr was sent to subdue Aswad Ansi.
Muhajir ibn-i-Abi-Un-nayyah was to invade Yamar-
Hadramawt,
Al-’Ala was to be responsible for the reduction
Bahrayn
Hazifa was to reduce iW-1lahran and Uman.
’Amr was sent with tw<=> columns to curb the Bani Qoza,
A column was despatcfched under Khalid Ibn-al-Sa’id to
the Syrian frontier.