Umayyad Caliphate, Islam
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Umayyad Caliphate
Damascus
The first dynastic caliphate, ruling from Damascus over lands from Spain to Sindh.
How does it touch Islam?
It built the Dome of the Rock and made Arabic the language of government.
Who ruled it?
Mu'awiyah ibn Abi SufyanYazid ibn MuawiyahMuawiyah ibn YazidMarwan ibn al-HakamAbd al-Malik ibn MarwanAl-Walid ibn Abd al-MalikSulayman ibn Abd al-MalikMaslamah ibn Abd al-MalikUmar ibn Abd al-AzizYazid ibn Abd al-MalikHisham ibn Abd al-MalikAl-Walid ibn YazidYazid ibn al-WalidIbrahim ibn al-WalidMarwan ibn Muhammad
What happened in its time?
Who else is linked?
Abu Ayyub al-AnsariAmr ibn al-AsUqbah ibn NafiAbdullah ibn al-ZubayrHasan ibn AliHusayn ibn AliMuhammad ibn al-HanafiyyahZayd ibn AliAbd ManafSa'id ibn al-MusayyibUrwah ibn al-ZubayrAmrah bint Abd al-RahmanUmm al-DardaHasan al-BasriAta ibn Abi RabahSa'id ibn JubayrIbn Shihab al-ZuhriJa'far al-SadiqAbu HanifaAl-Awza'iAsim ibn Abi al-NajudIbrahim ibn Adhamal-Masjid al-Haramal-Masjid al-NabawiJerusalemal-Masjid al-Aqsaal-ShamDamascusHarranKufaBasraKarbalaKairouanTunisTangierGibraltar (Jabal Tariq)CordobaToledoSevilleTours and PoitiersIstanbul (Constantinople)MervBukharaSamarkandDebalMultanBalkhPalembangCovadongaValencia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Empires
- Sumer and Akkad
- Ancient Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Babylonia
- Shang and Zhou China
- Assyria
- Saba (Sheba)
- Kingdom of Dawud and Sulayman
- Greek city-states
- Persian Empire
- Alexander and successors
- Han China
- Roman Empire
- Himyar (Yemen)
- Sasanian Persia
- Byzantine Empire
- Aksum (Abyssinia)
- Empire of Ghana
- Tang China
- Franks and Holy Roman Empire
- State of Madinah
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Umayyads of Cordoba
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ghaznavids
- Seljuk Empire
- Almoravids and Almohads
- Ayyubids
- Delhi Sultanate
- Mongol Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Muslim Mongol khanates
- Seljuks of Rum and beyliks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ming and Qing China
- Safavid Persia
- Mughal Empire
- European colonial empires
- Pahlavi Iran
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Turkey
- Independent Muslim-majority states
- Cold War and after
- Hittite Empire
- Olmec civilisation
- Phoenicia
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Minaeans, Qataban and Hadramawt
- Maurya Empire
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Parthian Empire
- Judea
- Maya civilisation
- Gupta Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Christian Nubia
- Ghassanids
- Japan
- Christian Spain
- Aghlabids
- Idrisids
- Khmer Empire
- Samanids
- Kievan Rus'
- England and Britain
- Buyids
- Song China
- France
- Taifa kingdoms
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Crusader states
- Great Zimbabwe
- Zengids
- Portugal
- Ghurids
- Hafsids
- Nasrid Granada
- Golden Horde
- Marinids
- Pasai and Aceh
- Russia
- Ifat and Adal
- Deccan sultanates
- Bengal Sultanate
- Timurids
- Malacca Sultanate
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Kanem-Bornu
- Alawi Morocco
- Qajar Iran