Umayyads

The Ummayads were the first dynasty of caliphs ("successors") of the Prophet Muhammad who were not closely related to Muhammad, though they were of the same Meccan? clan.

Muawiyah? had been the governor of Syria under the 3rd and 4th caliphs, Uthman? and Ali Ben Abu Talib. At

The Ummayads were overthrown in the east by the Abbasid dynasty. An Ummayad prince, Abd-ar-rahman I, took over the Muslim territory in Spain and founded a new Ummayad dynasty there.

The Ummayad Caliphs

[Muawiyah I]? ibn Abu Sufyan, 661-680

[Yazid I]? ibn Muawiyah, 680-683

[Muawiya II]? ibn Yazid, 683-684

[Marwan I]?, 684-685

[Abd al-Malik]? ibn Marwan, 685-705

[al-Walid I]? ibn Abd al-Malik, 705-715

Sulayman? ibn Abd al-Malik, 715-717

[Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz]?, 717-720

[Yazid II]? ibn Abd al-Malik, 720-724

Hisham? ibn Abd al-Malik, 724-743

[al-Walid II]? ibn Abd al-Malik, 743-744

[Yazid III]? ibn Abd al-Malik, 744

Ibrahim? ibn Abd al-Malik, 744

[Marwan II]?, 744-50

see History of Islam

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