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At its greatest extent (661–750), 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.
The precise extent of either empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars. Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement.
The Islamic empire reached its largest geographical extent under the Umayyads. [1] The Umayyads drove on the early Muslim conquests , conquering the Maghreb , Hispania , Central Asia , Sind , and parts of Chinese Turkestan , [ 2 ] but the constant warfare exhausted the state's military resources, while Alid and Kharijite revolts and tribal ...
Under the Umayyads, the caliphate grew rapidly in territory, incorporating the Caucasus, Transoxiana, Sindh, the Maghreb and most of the Iberian Peninsula into the Muslim world. [23] At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 5.17 million square miles (13,400,000 km 2), making it the largest empire the world had yet seen and the ...
As of 2016, there were 1.7 billion Muslims, [10] [11] with one out of four people in the world being Muslim, [12] making Islam the second-largest religion. [13] Out of children born from 2010 to 2015, 31% were born to Muslims, [14] and currently Islam is the world's fastest-growing major religion. [15] [16] [17]
At its largest extent, the Umayyad dynasty covered more than 5,000,000 square miles (13,000,000 km 2) making it one of the largest empires the world had yet seen, [115] and the fifth largest contiguous empire ever. Muawiyah beautified Damascus, and developed a court to rival that of Constantinople.
Following his death in 632 CE, his immediate successors established the Rashidun Caliphate. [ citation needed ] After that Muslim dynasties rose; some of these dynasties established notable and prominent Muslim empires, such as the Umayyad Empire and later the Abbasid Empire , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ottoman Empire centered around Anatolia , the Safavid ...
The Emirate of Córdoba, from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031. Its territory comprised most of the Iberian Peninsula (known to Muslims as al-Andalus), the Balearic Islands, and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba (at the time Qurṭubah).