Battle of Ray (651)
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| Battle of Ray | |||||||
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| Part of Islamic conquest of Persia | |||||||
 Picture of the Ray Castle, constructed under the Parthian Empire, the kinsmen of the Mihran family. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Rashidun Caliphate House of Ispahbudhan |
Sasanian Empire House of Mihran | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Al-Nu'man ibn Muqrin Farrukhzad | Siyavakhsh † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Low | Heavy | ||||||
The Battle of Ray was fought between the Sasanians and the Rashidun Caliphate in 651.[1] It was also part of the rivalry between the Ispahbudhan family and the Mihran family.
In 642/643, the Muslim Arabs had conquered Media, and continued to penetrate into the Iranian plateau. In 651, Farrukhzad, the spahbed of Khorasan, and minister of Yazdegerd III, mutinied and left for Tabaristan. On his way to Tabaristan, he met the Arab general Nu'aym near Qazvin, and made peace with him.[2] He then agreed to aid the Arabs against his rival Siyavakhsh, who had murdered his father in 631.[3]
