The conquest of Damascus is one of the main events of the Islamic conquests in Bilād ash-Shām. 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 isnād-cum-matn-analysis the oldest forms of Islamic historiography are reconstructed. Among them are not only the version by Ibn Isḥāq, but also the narratives in the futūḥ-work ascribed to al-Wāqidī and in al-Azdīʼs Futūḥ ash-Shām. Finally, the course of the events is described on the basis of the oldest reconstructed versions.