The succeeding Arab caliphates ruling the Muslim world for over six hundred years from Damascus and Baghdad, the Umayyad caliphate (661-750 C.E.) and the Abbasid caliphate (750-1258 C.E.), met the ...

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 ...

The Baghdad-based Abbasids took power from the Damascus-based Umayyad dynasty in 749. They ruled for over 500 years until Hulagu Khan and his Mongol armies destroyed the capital in 1258.

Explore the significant events during the Caliphate of Umar bin AlKhattab, appointed by Abu Bakr as his successor. After taking the oath of allegiance in 13 AH, Umar galvanized Muslims for Jihad, ...

PLATTSBURGH — Three caliphates emerged in early Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 C.E. The first four caliphs or successors — Abu Bakr ibn Qhuafah, Umar ibn al-Khattab ...

The once vast ISIS ‘caliphate’ is now reduced to a pair of villages in Syria. ... That accord required Damascus to guarantee that Kurds would not launch attacks against Turkey from Syria.

Reason for Designation: The ancient site preserves the architecture, art, and ambience of what may be the world’s oldest city. Even in a land as ancient as the Middle East the city of Damascus ...

Over the centuries, Damascus has been many things: a metropolis that served as the center of an Islamic caliphate; a hotbed for Arab anti-colonialist stirrings; and the seat of a political dynasty ...