No further naval attacks on this expedition are recorded in traditional Arabic sources | 34 between the led by and the fleet under the personal command of Emperor |
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The victory also paved the path for uncontested Muslim expansion along the coastline of North Africa | According to the 9th century chronicler , as the Emperor was preparing for battle, on the previous night he dreamed that he was in ; awaking he related the dream to an interpreter of dreams who said: Emperor, would that you had not slept nor seen that dream for your presence in Thessalonica — according to the interpreter, victory inclined to the Emperor's foes |
34 on the authority of | Dating [ ] records two possible dates for this naval battle: 651-2 A |
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, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One, Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 67 | SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies |
The battle is considered to be "the first decisive conflict of Islam on the deep" as well as part of the earliest campaign by to conquer Constantinople.
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