{
 "id": "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "battle-of-marj-rahit",
 "label": {
  "ar": "موقعة مرج راهط",
  "en": "Battle of Marj Rahit"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في نهاية سنة 64هـ وقعت بمرج راهط شرقي دمشق معركة بين مروان بن الحكم وأنصار بني أمية من جهة، وأنصار عبد الله بن الزبير من جهة أخرى، وكان النصر فيها لمروان، فكانت بداية استعادة الأمويين لدولتهم التي كانت قاب قوسين من الزوال {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}.",
  "en": "At the end of 64 AH a battle was fought at Marj Rahit, east of Damascus, between Marwan ibn al-Hakam and the supporters of the Umayyads on one side, and the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr on the other. Victory went to Marwan, and it marked the beginning of the Umayyads' recovery of their state, which had come within two bow-lengths of collapse {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "battle",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "hijri": "0064",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "نهاية سنة 64هـ كما يذكر الكتاب؛ لم يُحوَّل إلى الميلادي."
   }
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q2281774"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006",
   "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30",
   "generated_by": "Claude (subagent), extracted from umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (subagent), extracted from umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30; the place relation is inferred from the book's 'east of Damascus'"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في نهاية سنة 64هـ وقعت بمرج راهط، شرقي [[place/damascus|دمشق]]، معركة بين مروان بن الحكم وأنصار بني أمية من جهة، وأنصار عبد الله بن الزبير من جهة أخرى. وكان النصر لمروان. {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nيرى الكتاب أنها بداية استعادة الأمويين دولتهم التي كانت قاب قوسين من الزوال. {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nقاد جيش ابن الزبير بالشام [[person/al-dahhak-ibn-qays-al-fihri|الضحاك بن قيس الفهري]]. {cite:bakr-umayyad-state-1134715}\n\nيذكر الكتاب التاريخ بالهجري، ولم يُحوَّل هنا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "At the end of 64 AH a battle was fought at Marj Rahit, east of [[place/damascus|Damascus]], between Marwan ibn al-Hakam and the supporters of the Umayyads on one side, and the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr on the other. Victory went to Marwan. {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nThe book holds that it was the beginning of the Umayyads' recovery of a state that had been very close to collapse. {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nThe army of Ibn al-Zubayr in Syria was led by [[person/al-dahhak-ibn-qays-al-fihri|al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri]]. {cite:bakr-umayyad-state-1134715}\n\nThe book gives the date in the Hijri calendar, and it has not been converted here."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "64ھ کے آخر میں [[place/damascus|دمشق]] کے مشرق میں مرج راہط کے مقام پر مروان بن الحکم اور بنو امیہ کے حامیوں اور دوسری طرف عبد اللہ بن زبیر کے حامیوں کے درمیان ایک معرکہ ہوا۔ فتح مروان کی ہوئی۔ {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nکتاب اسے بنو امیہ کی اس سلطنت کی بحالی کا آغاز قرار دیتی ہے جو زوال کے بہت قریب پہنچ چکی تھی۔ {cite:umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006 p. 30}\n\nابن زبیر کے لشکر کی قیادت شام میں [[person/al-dahhak-ibn-qays-al-fihri|ضحاک بن قیس فہری]] کر رہے تھے۔ {cite:bakr-umayyad-state-1134715}\n\nکتاب سال ہجری میں تاریخ بیان کرتی ہے، اور یہاں اسے تبدیل نہیں کیا گیا۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/damascus",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006"
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-dahhak-ibn-qays-al-fihri",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "قائد جيش ابن الزبير بالشام",
   "sources": [
    "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
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  }
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  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
  "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
  "building/umayyad-mosque",
  "event/abd-al-ghani-damascus-595",
  "event/afdal-damascus-596",
  "event/al-adil-takes-damascus-592",
  "event/al-ghazali-damascus-retreat-488",
  "event/ashraf-damascus-626"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}