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The Umayyad dynasty ( Arabic: بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, romanized : Banū Umayya, lit. 'Sons of Umayya') or Umayyads ( Arabic: الأمويون, romanized : al-Umawiyyūn) was an Arab clan within the Quraysh tribe who were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of al-Andalus between 756 and 1031. In the pre ...
The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania ( al-Andalus ). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [ 1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.
Al-Hajjaj was born in ca. 661 in the city of Ta'if in the Hejaz (western Arabia, where Mecca and Medina are located). [ 1] He belonged to the family of Abu Aqil, [ 2] called after al-Hajjaj's paternal great-grandfather. [ 3] The family was part of the Banu Awf branch of the Thaqif tribe. [ 2]
Umayya ibn Khalaf. Umayya ibn Khalaf ( Arabic: أمية ابن خلف) (born on 563 and died 13 March 624 at age of 61) was an Arab slave master and the chieftain of the Banu Jumah of the Quraysh in the seventh century. He was one of the chief opponents against the Muslims led by Muhammad.
Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (Arabic: أبو مسلم عبد الرحمن بن مسلم الخراساني; Persian: ابومسلم عبدالرحمان بن مسلم خراسانی; born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755) was a Persian [1] [2] general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Marwan I. Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya ( Arabic: مروان بن الحكم بن أبي العاص بن أمية, romanized : Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; 623 or 626 – April/May 685), commonly known as Marwan I, was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684–685. He founded the ...
Khālid ibn Yazīd (full name Abū Hāshim Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān, Arabic: أبو هاشم خالد بن يزيد بن معاوية بن أبي سفيان ), c. 668–704 or 709, was an Umayyad prince and purported alchemist . As a son of the Umayyad caliph Yazid I, Khalid was supposed to become caliph after his ...
Muslim leader. Influenced. Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Abū Muḥammad Sufyān ibn ʽUyaynah ibn Maymūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī ( Arabic: أبو محمد سفيان بن عيينة بن ميمون الهلالي الكوفي) (725 – February 25, 814) was a prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca. He was from the third generation of ...