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Siege of Ta'if

Name: Siege of Ta'if
Location: Ta'if, Saudi Arabia

Siege of Ta'if was a siege conducted in November AD 630 at Ta'if, in what is now Saudi Arabia. The recorded result: Inconclusive. Recorded strength: 12,000 against 10,000.

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FoughtNovember AD 630

WhereTa'if, Saudi Arabia21.267N, 40.417E

OutcomeInconclusive

BelligerentsFirst Islamic StateagainstHawazin; Thaqif

Casualties and losses12 (Ibn Hisham)andHeavy

Record

Date	November AD 630 (month precision)
Place	Ta'if, Saudi Arabia 21.267N, 40.417E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Strength	12,000	10,000
Casualties and losses	12 (Ibn Hisham)	Heavy
Commanders	Muhammad Khalid ibn al-Walid Ali Abu Sufyan Tufayl ibn Amr	Malik ibn Awf Abd-Ya-Layl ibn Amr

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Taif 1916, same recorded site
Battle of Hunayn AD 630, 48 km NW
Aksumite siege of Mecca AD 570, 64 km W
Battle of Mecca 1924, 64 km W
Battle of Mecca 1813, 64 km W

Elsewhere in AD 630

Battle of Hunayn Saudi Arabia

Siege of Ta'if is one of 203 engagements of the 7th century in the atlas and one of 86 in present-day Saudi Arabia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q3087968, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Ta'if, revision 1370745603, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.