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Also Known As ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Born 682 or 683 • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Died February 720 • Aleppo • Syria
House / Dynasty Umayyad dynasty
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Arts and sciences under Hārūn al-Rashīd
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
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Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
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ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
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Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
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Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
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Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
Arab general
Homs: mosque of Khālid ibn al-Walīd
Khālid ibn al-Walīd
Arab Muslim general
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Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād
Muslim general
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Yazīd I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrā
Arabian general
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al-Mutawakkil
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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al-Balādhurī
Muslim historian
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Marwān II
Umayyad caliph