The conquest of Damascus is one of the main events of the Islamic conquests in bilad al-Sham. Consequently, it appears with approximately 1000 narratives in the Islamic literature. This book shows the dependencies of these narratives. It therefore exemplifies the historiography from 700-1300 CE using one single event. Using the method of isnad-cum-matn-analysis the oldest forms of Islamic historiography are reconstructed. Among them are not only the version by Ibn Ishaq, but also the narratives in the futuh-work ascribed to al-Waqidi and in al-Azdi's Futuh al-Sham. Finally, the course of the events is described on the basis of the oldest reconstructed versions.