79 results for “umayyad”
...e transfer of power to Muawiyah marked the beginning of the Umayyad Caliphate and the end of the Rashidun era — a golden period...
.... The years 60–73 AH represent the most turbulent period of Umayyad consolidation, with three simultaneous civil conflicts — th...
...ians, effectively ended the First Fitna and inaugurated the Umayyad Caliphate in 41 AH. Muawiyah moved the capital from Kufa to...
...g no more than seventy-two fighters — faced an overwhelming Umayyad army. On the day of Ashura, the battle was swift and catast...
Following the death of Yazid I in 64 AH, the Umayyad dynasty faced its gravest internal crisis. Yazid's young so...
...nsiderations. The adjacent al-Aqsa Mosque, also built under Umayyad patronage (with a much simpler original structure), togethe...
...e reforms created the administrative skeleton of the mature Umayyad state and provided the infrastructure that would sustain a ...
...polarizing figures of early Islamic history — celebrated by Umayyad loyalists as a firm administrator who pacified fractious pr...
...lminating in the complete pacification of the Maghrib under Umayyad generals. The fall of Carthage — the ancient Byzantine admi...
... Abd al-Malik. It represented the culmination of decades of Umayyad ambition to fulfill what some Arabs interpreted as propheti...
...ad, a Berber commander and freedman of Musa ibn Nusayr, the Umayyad governor of North Africa. Tariq crossed the strait that wou...
...he conquest of Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) by the young Umayyad general Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi in 93 AH opened th...
...he caliphate in 99 AH represented a striking departure from Umayyad norms and is remembered by Muslim historians as a brief but...
...mily itself, presiding over cases in which he ruled against Umayyad interests. He also attempted to reduce military adventurism...
...lik's twenty-year reign (105–125 AH) was the longest of any Umayyad caliph and represented both the administrative peak and the...
...s) — was fought in October 732 CE between the forces of the Umayyad governor of al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, and the F...
...l political upheaval in early Islamic history, toppling the Umayyad dynasty and transferring the caliphate to the Abbasid famil...
...hern Iraq, was the final military confrontation between the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid revolutionary forces. The last Um...
...aysh), was the sole survivor of the Abbasid massacre of the Umayyad family. A young man in his early twenties when the Abbasids...
The easternmost provinces of the Umayyad Caliphate — collectively known as Khurasan, encompassing th...
In 132 AH, the Abbasid revolution overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate, as Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah was proclaimed the fir...
...ons, around 72 fighters. The Kufan support evaporated under Umayyad pressure. Husayn's group was intercepted at Karbala by a la...
The conquest of Sindh under the young Umayyad general Muhammad ibn Qasim, just seventeen years old at the...
... The Abbasid force, recently victorious in overthrowing the Umayyads, met the Tang army at the Talas River. The defection of th...
...tle of the Great Zab was the decisive engagement that ended Umayyad rule and established the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasid rev...
...sequent campaigns northward and remained the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate for nearly a century.
Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan established the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus after the death of Ali. The Umayyads ex...
The Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by the Umayyad caliphs on the southern end of the Temple Mount in Jerusale...
Caliph al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik completed the Great Mosque of Damascus, one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Built on the site of a Roman temple
Often called the fifth Rightly Guided Caliph. He reversed Umayyad excesses, stopped the cursing of Ali from pulpits, redistri...
The Abbasid movement overthrew the Umayyad caliphate, establishing a new dynasty that moved the capita...
Companion and scribe of revelation who became the first Umayyad caliph.
Umayyad governor of North Africa (Ifriqiya) who oversaw the conques...
The eighth Umayyad caliph, often called the fifth Rightly Guided Caliph for hi...
The fifth Rightly-Guided Caliph, an Umayyad ruler who restored justice and is counted among the Tabiin.
Berber Muslim military commander who led the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 92 AH (711 CE). The Ro...
Wife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan, condemned in Surah al-Masad (111:4) as a 'carrier of firewood' for her active role in persecuting the Prophet ﷺ.
Qurayshi persecutor who placed the intestines of a slaughtered animal on the Prophet ﷺ during prayer, and was executed after the Battle of Badr.
Wife of Abu Sufyan who fiercely opposed Islam before the Conquest of Makkah, later accepted Islam and became a companion. She is known for her role at the Battl
...ders appointed by Abu Bakr for the conquest of Syria. First Umayyad governor of Damascus, died of plague in 18 AH. Muawiyah suc...
... maturity. He served as governor of Kufa and Homs under the Umayyads and narrated the famous hadith on halal and haram: 'The la...
One of the earliest converts to Islam, among the first ten to embrace the faith. He and his brother Amr ibn Sa'id served the Prophet ﷺ as secretaries. He partic
... scholar of hadith and fiqh, he led an uprising against the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and was martyred in Kufah in...
...dith and was a respected authority in Madinah well into the Umayyad period.
A companion and prominent Umayyad leader who served as governor of Kufa under Uthman ibn Affa...
The fifth Umayyad caliph (r. 65-86 AH / 685-705 CE), often called the 'father...
The powerful governor of Iraq and the East under the Umayyad caliphs Abd al-Malik and al-Walid (d. 95 AH / 714 CE). Know...
A companion and half-brother of Uthman ibn Affan. He served as governor of Kufa under Uthman. Known as the subject of Surah al-Hujurat (49:6) — 'O you who belie
An Egyptian companion and a major general of the Umayyad caliphate. He participated in the conquest of North Africa ...
A highly capable administrator who served both Ali ibn Abi Talib and later Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan. He was 'claimed' as half-brother by Muawiyah and appointed g
Son of Ziyad ibn Abih and Umayyad governor of Basra and Kufa (d. 67 AH). He bears heavy respo...
The Umayyad general who conquered Sind and southern Punjab at the age o...
Son of Caliph Abd al-Malik and one of the greatest Umayyad military commanders. He led the famous siege of Constantino...
The Umayyad governor of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) who led the famous i...
The sixth Umayyad caliph (r. 86-96 AH / 705-715 CE), considered the pinnacle ...
The second Umayyad caliph (r. 60-64 AH / 680-683 CE), son of Muawiyah ibn Abi ...
The fourth Umayyad caliph (r. 64-65 AH), founder of the Marwanid branch of the...
... trusted authority in both Basra and Syria during the early Umayyad period.
Umayyad governor of Egypt for approximately 20 years (65-86 AH) und...
An Umayyad prince known as al-Ashdaq (the prominent-jawed), a serious ...
Umayyad governor of Iraq under caliphs Yazid II and Hisham ibn Abd ...
The great Umayyad commander of Central Asian conquests (d. 96 AH), operating ...
Umayyad governor of Khurasan and military commander who launched ca...
...h after the Hijra. Led an independent caliphate against the Umayyads for nine years.
Syrian Tabi'i scholar who advised the Umayyad caliphs and helped build the Dome of the Rock.
...or sixty years under the caliphs Umar, Uthman, Ali, and the Umayyads, renowned for his sharp legal mind and impartiality.
...urist of Greater Syria in his era. A trusted advisor of the Umayyad caliphs, he played a key role in selecting Umar ibn Abd al-...
...reer combined scholarship with judicial authority under the Umayyads.
...prophets, the life of Muhammad, the Rashidun caliphate, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids up to 915 CE. At-Tabari preserved multip...
... covering the expansion from the Prophet's time through the Umayyad period. Al-Baladhuri provides detailed accounts of each cam...
...e-Islamic prophets, the seerah, the Rashidun caliphate, the Umayyads, Abbasids, and beyond.
...ion from the Prophet through the Rightly-Guided Caliphates, Umayyads, Abbasids, and Crusader period.
The Umayyad dynasty's role in spreading Islam from Spain to Central Asi...
The first hereditary Islamic dynasty that expanded Muslim rule from Spain to Central Asia and established Arabic as the language of governance.
The Umayyad caliph who transformed his rule to follow the model of the ...