The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, social unrest, and rising opposition led to ...

Criterion (ii): Damascus, as capital of the Umayyad caliphate - the first Islamic caliphate - was of key importance in the development of subsequent Arab cities. With its Great Mosque at the heart of ...

That year, the Umayyad prince Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, who had just captured Tyana (a Byzantine city in Cappadocia at the foot of the Taurus Mountains, strategically important for controlling the ...

When he refused to pledge allegiance to the Umayyad caliphate, he was killed in the battle, cementing the schism between Sunni and Shiite Islam. Pilgrims gather in Karbala, ...

The swift conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate, taking advantage of the Visigothic kingdom’s succession civil war, cannot be explained so much by the strength of those troops, ...

The Umayyad Caliphate, founded in the 7th century, was indeed a formidable empire that not only expanded territorially but also played an important role in the dissemination of Islamic culture ...

How can one forget the Umayyad Caliphate once we've seen it as a fast-food franchise? ... "Thus, while the Umayyad equivalent of McDonald's golden arches appeared to be everywhere, ...

Millions of Shiite Muslims have packed the streets of the Iraqi city of Karbala on their annual pilgrim to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein who became a symbol of ...

Then, beginning in 711, armies united by the Umayyad dynasty—the Arab caliphate’s first great Muslim regime—brought the entire peninsula under Islamic rule.