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Military Management in the Battles of the Prophet (s)

Author: Muhammad Dhahir Watr
Translator: Abu Zahra Muhammadi
Publisher: Veritas Consulting PR and Media Consultancy UK
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• Translator’s Introduction
• Author’s Introduction
• Note
• Preface
• One: The Military And Its Historical Significance
• Two: Novel Warfare
• Three: Management Of Supplies And Munitions
• Four: The Subject For Discussion
• Five: Striving For Humanity
• Notes
• Scope Of Research
• A Chronological Introduction And Description Of The Most Important Sources
• The Most Important Historians
• 1. Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Muslim Bin ‘Ubaydallah Bin Shihāb al-Zuhri (51-124 A.H.)
• 2. Abu ‘Abdillah Muhammad Ibn Is’hāq Bin Yasār al-Mutallabi (85-151 A.H.)
• 3. Abu Abdillah Muhammad Ibn Umar al-Wāqidi (130-207 A.H.)
• 4. Abu al-Rabi’ Sulaymān Bin Musā Ibn Sālim al-Kalā’i al-Himyari
• 5. Abu al-Fath Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn Sayyid al-Nās152
• Notes
• The Arab Military Before Islām
• 1) The Objectives of War
• 2) Wars of Arabs against the Sassanids
• 3) Civil Wars in the North
• Notes
• Leadership And Command
• Etiquettes of Leadership
• A) Intellectual Traits
• One: Reflection, Contemplation and Far-sightedness
• 1. Planning and Organization
• 2. Taking Decisions and Issuing Clear Orders
• Two: Skill and Intellectual Brilliance in Executing the Duties of a Commander
• Three: Sagacity and Perspicacity
• B) Practical Traits
• 1. Principles of Warfare
• 2. Pre-emptive Warfare (Harb al-Wiqāyah)
• 3. Lightning Strikes and Blitzes
• 4. Pursuing and Chasing After Fleeing Enemy Soldiers
• 5. Attacks and Onslaughts
• 6. Deception and Trickery
• 7. Superiority in Battle
• 8. Swiftness and Speed in Battle
• 9. Revolutionary and All-inclusive War
• 10. Psychological Warfare
• C) Physical And Spiritual Traits
• 1. Physical Traits
• 2. Spiritual Traits
• Notes
• Staff Headquarters
• 1. The Department Of Planning And Scheduling
• a) Planning the policy for the participation of the Ansār in battle
• b) Methods of Negotiation
• c) Designing a Program in order to Know the Enemy
• d) Creating a Plan to Gain Control of the Most Important Routes and Courses
• e) Appointing a Deputy in Madina
• f) Reviewing of the Supreme Commander of the Army
• g) Placing the Capable Individuals in Appropriate Positions
• h) Preserving the Unity and Integration of the Army
• i) Discipline
• j) Determining the Number of Soldiers in the Army
• k) Organization and arrangement of the troops
• 2. The Administrative Council
• 3. The Department Of Doctrinal Guidance
• Notes
• The Department of Intelligence And Security
• The Intelligence Department
• First: Intention and Objective
• Second: Assembly (of enemy troops)
• Third: Terrain and the points of advancement
• Fourth: Identifying the area of operations
• Operations Personnel
• First: Department of Operations
• 1. Objective
• 2. Sending military missions and commanding the army in battle
• 3. Studying what was important and necessary
• 4. Preserving the goal
• 5. Exhortation to fight
• 6. The flag and banner
• 7. Code words and identification
• 8. Being prepared for war
• 9. General mobilization
• 10. Taking the appropriate counter-measures
• 11. The routes taken by the forces
• 12. The area of assembly and mobilization
• 13. The area of encampment and setting up base
• 14. Keeping the operations secret and covert
• 15. Specification and assessment of the battle ground
• 16. Co-operation
• 17. Invasion and attack
• 18. Display of strength and might
• 19. Forewarning prior to battle
• 20. The order to commence the war
• 21. Combat
• 22. Organization of the battle
• 23. Battles fought in order to capture forts (Harb al-Husun)
• 24. Battles with barriers (and impediments)
• 25. Battles in cities and towns (Harb al-Mudun)
• 26. Daily reports
• An analysis of the battles on the various front-lines
• a) The front-line against the Quraysh
• b) The front-line against the other Arab tribes
• c) The front-line against the Jews
• d) The front-line against the Rome
• Second: Department of Training
• Third: Department of Armament
• a) Offensive weapons
• b) Defensive weapons
• Notes
• Department Of Supplies And Reinforcements
• A) Department Of Supplies And Reinforcements
• The Rear
• 1) Types of supplies and support
• 2) The main points of relief support
• 3) Places of rest for the army
• 4) Modes of transport
• 5) Foods and rations
• 6) Sources for procuring the food
• 7) Water
• 8) Sources of nourishment
• 9) Shelter, tents and clothes
• 10) Storing foodstuffs
• 11) Clearing the field of operations
• 12) Trade and agriculture
• 13) Welcoming the soldiers
• 14) The minimum age for being accepted into the army
• 15) Teaching and education
• 16) Securing relief support in pre-emptive battle
• 17) Securing reinforcements when capturing fortresses
• 18) Difficulties in securing supplies
• 19) The division for training and exercise
• B) Department Of War Booty
• 1) Ways of using the booty on the battlefield
• 2) The rules of distribution of war booty
• 3) The place where the booty was divided
• 4) Sources of booty
• 5) Prisoners
• C) Department Of Medical Services
• 1) Designation and goals of the department of medical services
• 2) Losses
• 3) The number of martyrs in the battles
• 4) Burying the Martyrs
• 5) The role of women in securing supplies and relief support
• An Analysis of the Military Management
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources