al-Mutawakkil: Quick Facts

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ʿAlī

Muslim caliph

Muʿāwiyah I

Umayyad caliph

al-Maʾmūn

ʿAbbāsid caliph

ʿAbd al-Malik

Umayyad caliph

Hārūn al-Rashīd

ʿAbbāsid caliph

al-Manṣūr

ʿAbbāsid caliph

ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān

Muslim caliph

Abū Bakr

Muslim caliph

ʿUmar I

Muslim caliph

Qutaybah ibn Muslim

Arab general

Ibn al-Ashʿath

Arab general

ʿUmar II

Umayyad caliph

Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik

Umayyad caliph

ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ

Arab general

Khālid ibn al-Walīd

Arab Muslim general

Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād

Muslim general

Yazīd I

Umayyad caliph

al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrā

Arabian general

al-Balādhurī

Muslim historian

Marwān II

Umayyad caliph