Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Caliph · Builder of the Dome of the Rock
RulerCaliph · Builder of the Dome of the Rock
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwanعبد الملك بن مروان
Damascus
The caliph who reunited the empire, built the Dome of the Rock and made Arabic its language.
He ended the second civil war when Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr was killed in Makkah in 692. He raised the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, minted the first coins carrying only Quranic words, and made Arabic the language of government.
What grew out of it?
The Dome of the Rock still stands as the oldest surviving great monument of Islam.
Who came before and after?
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Umayyad CaliphateDamascusSa'id ibn al-MusayyibUrwah ibn al-ZubayrUmm al-Dardaal-Masjid al-Aqsa
Who lived at the same time?
Marwan ibn al-HakamAl-Walid ibn Abd al-MalikWahb ibn MunabbihAl-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi BakrMuhammad ibn SirinIbrahim al-Nakha'iAta ibn Abi RabahSa'id ibn Jubayr
Source: history · Wikipedia
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.
Rulers
- Yazid ibn Muawiyah
- Muawiyah ibn Yazid
- Marwan ibn al-Hakam
- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
- Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik
- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
- Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
- Al-Walid ibn Yazid
- Yazid ibn al-Walid
- Ibrahim ibn al-Walid
- Marwan ibn Muhammad
- Al-Saffah
- Al-Mansur
- Al-Mahdi
- Al-Hadi
- Harun al-Rashid
- Al-Amin
- Al-Mamun
- Al-Mutasim
- Al-Wathiq
- Al-Mutawakkil
- Al-Muntasir
- Al-Mustain
- Al-Mutazz
- Al-Muhtadi
- Al-Mutamid
- Al-Mutadid
- Al-Muktafi
- Al-Muqtadir
- Al-Qahir
- Al-Radi
- Al-Muttaqi
- Al-Mustakfi
- Al-Muti
- Al-Tai
- Al-Qadir
- Al-Qaim
- Al-Muqtadi
- Al-Mustazhir
- Al-Mustarshid
- Al-Rashid
- Al-Muqtafi
- Al-Mustanjid
- Al-Mustadi
- Al-Nasir li-Din Allah
- Al-Zahir
- Al-Mustansir
- Al-Mustasim
- Abd al-Rahman I
- Hisham I
- Al-Hakam I
- Abd al-Rahman II
- Muhammad I of Cordoba
- Al-Mundhir
- Abdallah ibn Muhammad
- Abd al-Rahman III
- Al-Hakam II
- Hisham II
- Al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir
- Hisham III
- Al-Mutamid ibn Abbad
- Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah
- Al-Muizz li-Din Allah
- Al-Aziz Billah
- Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
- Al-Mustansir Billah
- Al-Adid
- Tughril Beg
- Alp Arslan
- Malik Shah I
- Nizam al-Mulk
- Ahmad Sanjar
- Kilij Arslan I
- Kayqubad I
- Imad al-Din Zengi
- Nur al-Din Zengi
- Shirkuh
- Salah al-Din
- Al-Adil
- Al-Kamil
- Al-Salih Ayyub
- Turan Shah
- Shajar al-Durr
- Izz al-Din Aybak
- Qutuz
- Baybars
- Qalawun
- Al-Ashraf Khalil
- Al-Nasir Muhammad
- Barquq
- Barsbay
- Qaitbay
- Qansuh al-Ghawri
- Tumanbay II
- Al-Mutawakkil III
- Yusuf ibn Tashfin
- Ali ibn Yusuf
- Ibn Tumart
- Abd al-Mumin
- Yaqub al-Mansur
- Muhammad al-Nasir
- Muhammad I of Granada
- Yusuf I of Granada
- Muhammad V of Granada
- Muhammad XII
- Muhammad al-Mustansir
- Abu Inan Faris
- Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab
- Ziyadat Allah I
- Idris I
- Idris II
- Ahmad ibn Tulun
- Sayf al-Dawla
- Ismail ibn Ahmad
- Adud al-Dawla
- Sebuktigin
- Mahmud of Ghazna
- Qutb al-Din Aibak
- Iltutmish
- Razia Sultana
- Ghiyath al-Din Balban
- Alauddin Khalji
- Muhammad bin Tughluq
- Firuz Shah Tughluq
- Ibrahim Lodi
- Muhammad II of Khwarazm
- Jalal al-Din Mangburni
- Berke Khan
- Ozbeg Khan
- Ghazan
- Oljeitu
- Timur
- Shah Rukh
- Ulugh Beg
- Babur
- Humayun
- Akbar
- Jahangir
- Shah Jahan
- Aurangzeb
- Bahadur Shah II
- Shah Ismail I
- Tahmasp I
- Shah Abbas I
- Nader Shah
- Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
- Sundiata Keita
- Mansa Musa
- Mansa Sulayman
- Sunni Ali
- Askia Muhammad I
- Idris Alooma
- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
- Tunka Manin
- Malik al-Salih
- Iskandar Muda
- Muhammad Bello
- Osman I
- Orhan
- Murad I
- Bayezid I
- Mehmed I
- Murad II
- Mehmed II
- Bayezid II
- Selim I
- Suleiman I
- Selim II
- Murad III
- Mehmed III
- Ahmed I
- Mustafa I
- Osman II
- Murad IV
- Ibrahim
- Mehmed IV
- Suleiman II
- Ahmed II
- Mustafa II
- Ahmed III
- Mahmud I
- Osman III
- Mustafa III
- Abdul Hamid I
- Selim III
- Mustafa IV
- Mahmud II
- Abdulmejid I
- Abdulaziz
- Murad V
- Abdul Hamid II
- Mehmed V
- Mehmed VI
- Abdulmejid II
- Muhammad Ali Pasha
- Emir Abd al-Qadir
- Imam Shamil
- Muhammad ibn Saud
- Abdulaziz ibn Saud
- Moulay Ismail
- Ahmad al-Mansur
- Tipu Sultan
- Mustafa Kemal
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Sargon of Akkad
- Hammurabi
- Ramesses II
- Ashurbanipal
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Cyrus the Great
- Darius I
- Alexander the Great
- Antiochus IV
- Aretas IV
- Herod the Great
- Augustus
- Tiberius
- Pontius Pilate
- Titus
- Hadrian
- Decius
- Theodosius II
- Constantine
- Ezana
- Kaleb
- Justinian
- Khosrow I
- Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan
- Al-Numan ibn al-Mundhir
- Heraclius
- Khosrow II
- Yazdegerd III
- Al-Muqawqis
- Jabalah ibn al-Ayham
- Constans II
- Leo III the Isaurian
- Charles Martel
- Charlemagne
- Nikephoros I
- Romanos IV Diogenes
- Alexios I Komnenos
- Alfonso VI
- Roger II of Sicily
- Baldwin I
- Guy of Lusignan
- Richard I
- Frederick II
- Louis IX
- Genghis Khan
- Constantine XI
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Isabella I of Castile
- Ivan IV
- Catherine the Great
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Queen Victoria
- Ur-Nammu
- Akhenaten
- Merneptah
- Sargon II
- Julius Caesar
- Shapur I
- Valerian
- Imru' al-Qays ibn Amr
- Theodosius I
- Pelayo
- Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik
- Roger I of Sicily
- Hummay
- Sultan Hasan
- Philip III of Spain
- Muhammad Ahmad