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...n Abi Talib was struck with a poison-coated sword by Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam al-Muradi, a Khawarij avenger for Nahrawan, whil...
...ubsequent suppression of the Kharijite revolt led by Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Ash'ath between 81–83 AH was swift and merciless. Al...
...as defeated and killed. Ibn al-Qasim subsequently captured Brahmanabad, Multan, and pressed into the Punjab. His administratio...
...en the forces of the Umayyad governor of al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, and the Frankish forces under Charles Martel. T...
... the massacre shocked observers. One Umayyad prince, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiyah — a grandson of Hisham — escaped the carnage a...
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiyah ibn Hisham, known as al-Dakhil (the Immigrant)...
...appointment of the tyrannical governor al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman and others who reimposed taxes on converts and refused to t...
...ansion of Muslim forces into the Frankish heartland. Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, the governor of Al-Andalus, led a large raiding...
...members of the Umayyad family, with the exception of Abd al-Rahman, who escaped to Al-Andalus and established an independent U...
The Battle of Bab al-Abwab (Gate of Gates, modern Derbent) in 22 AH / 643 CE was the northernmost Muslim military expedition of the Rashidun era, pushing into t
...h, was struck by the poisoned sword of the Kharijite Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muljam while leading Fajr prayer at the mosque of Kufa....
...y under Charles Martel defeated the Muslim forces of Abd ar-Rahman al-Ghafiqi near Tours, France. This battle marked the furth...
The Great Mosque of Cordoba was expanded under Abd ar-Rahman I and his successors into one of the largest and most magni...
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khaldun, the father of sociology and historiography, di...