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The Umayyad Caliphate (Arabic: ‎, Banu Umayyah ) was the second of the four Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. It was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty, whose name derives from...
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The Caliphate of Córdoba (Arabic: خلافة قرطبة Khilāfat Qurṭuba ) ruled the Iberian peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) and North Africa from the city of Córdoba, from 929 to 1031. This period was character...
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Umayyad Dynasty Definition, Encyclopedia of the Middle East ... Map of the Umayyad Empire ... They were despised for a long time by both by Sunni and Shia Muslims because they allegedly suppressed the Caliphate as a religious institution and ruled in effect as secular kings.
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Emirate and Caliphate Period 711 -1031 A.D.
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This is not to say that the Umayyad caliphate was not unmarred by degeneracy and downright cruelty. But the Umayyads seem to be fairly uninterested in religious questions or the religious obligations of their position—it is rather as secular and secularizing rulers that their interest and greatness lies.
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However, following the assassination of cAli ibn Abi Talib—Muhammad's cousin, son-in-law, and fourth caliph (r. 656–61)—in 661, Mucawiya, the governor of Syria under the Rightly Guided Caliphs, seized power and established the Umayyad caliphate, the first Islamic dynasty (661–750). During Mucawiya's reign...
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