31 results for “umayyad”
Clear filter...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...