Abdallah ibn Sa'd built a strong navy and proved to be a skilled naval commander | |
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Uthman permitted Muawiyah to raid the island of in 649 and the success of that campaign set the stage for the undertaking of naval activities by the Government of | This conflict would continue over the subsequent decades, with Muslims using their supremacy at Mediterranean to go as far as Sicily and establish strongholds in Western Europe |
And although the Caliphate emerged victorious, they retreated to recoup their losses | Due to the rough seas, Tabari describes the Byzantine and Arab ships being arranged in lines and lashed together, to allow for melee combat |
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Probably Mount Olympos south of , see "Olympus Phoinikous Mons" in , map 65, D4 | The victory also paved the path for uncontested Muslim expansion along the coastline of North Africa |
Under him the Muslim navy won a number of naval victories including repulsing a Byzantine counter-attack on in 646.
6, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One, Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 67 | Siege of Constantinople of 654 [ ] Following their defeat, the respite the Byzantines were granted is typically ascribed to the Arab fleet retreating after its victory and conflict over the authority of among the crew, the first stirrings of a |
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However the Armenian historian records that the Arab fleet continued on beyond the battle at Phoenix to attempt a | According to Theophanes, he managed to make his escape by exchanging uniforms with one of his officers |
Battle [ ] The two forces met off the coast of Mount Phoenix in , near the harbour of modern.