Qualla: Siege of Mecca (692) https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Siege of Mecca (692) https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692 Siege of Mecca (692): Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ Catapults rained stones onto Islam's holiest city while the Hajj rituals continued below. In the spring of 692, Mecca was under siege by fellow Muslims, and a mountain called Abu Qubays had become an artillery platform aimed squarely at the Ka'ba. Nine years earlier, another Umayyad army had set the sacred shrine on fire. Now a second general, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, was finishing the job his caliph had started: breaking the rival caliphate of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the last holdout of a civil war that had fractured the Muslim world for more than a decade.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/3/siege-of-mecca-692-wp/sgu3-siege-of-mecca-692-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Mecca (692): Two Caliphs, One Ka'ba https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ The Second Fitna had been tearing the caliphate apart since 680. When the Umayyad caliph Yazid I died in late 683, the empire cracked in half. Most provinces recognized Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, an early companion's son, who ruled from Mecca's sanctuary. Syria's pro-Umayyad tribes...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/3/siege-of-mecca-692-wp/sgu3-siege-of-mecca-692-two-caliphs-one-kaba.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Mecca (692): Stones Onto Sacred Ground https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ Hajjaj ibn Yusuf arrived at Mecca on 25 March 692 with two thousand Syrian troops, reinforced a month later by Tariq ibn Amr's men from Medina. The orders from Damascus were careful: besiege, starve, avoid bloodshed in the sanctuary. Hajjaj positioned his catapults on Abu Qubays,...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/3/siege-of-mecca-692-wp/sgu3-siege-of-mecca-692-stones-onto-sacred-ground.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Mecca (692): A Mother's Counsel https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ Ten thousand of Ibn al-Zubayr's men eventually surrendered, including two of his own sons, as Hajjaj offered amnesty to anyone who came over. The old caliph was running out of options. He went to his mother, Asma bint Abi Bakr, and asked whether he should submit. The account, pre...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/3/siege-of-mecca-692-wp/sgu3-siege-of-mecca-692-a-mothers-counsel.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Mecca (692): Rebuilding the Cube https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ The year was called the Year of Unity. The civil war was over. Hajjaj became governor of the Hejaz, Yemen, and central Arabia, and the caliphate was whole again under Abd al-Malik. But the Ka'ba was scarred, walls cracked where catapult stones had struck. Ibn al-Zubayr had earlie...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/g/u/3/siege-of-mecca-692-wp/sgu3-siege-of-mecca-692-rebuilding-the-cube.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Mecca (692): The Memory That Stayed https://qualla.com/siege-of-mecca-692/ The siege of 692 did not end Mecca, or Islam, or the hajj. Within weeks of Ibn al-Zubayr's death, pilgrims were again circling the rebuilt Ka'ba. But the image of an Umayyad general bombarding the sanctuary during the pilgrimage season entered the historical memory and did not le...

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