Umayyads in a sentence

The Abbasids also distinguished themselves from the Umayyads by attacking the Umayyads' moral character and administration.

During the reign of the Umayyads began the translation of Greek, Persian, Syriac texts that were copied and brought back to Andalusia.

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr left and was later also killed and crucified by the Syrian Army now under the control of the Umayyads.

After this defeat, al-Harith's movement seems to have been dissolved, but the problem of the rights of non-Arab Muslims would continue to plague the Umayyads.

Also, the Abbasids found themselves to often be at conflict with the Umayyads in Spain.

Although the Yemenites were not natural allies (the Umayyads are a Qaysid tribe), their interest was piqued.

A mosque dedicated to Umar was built upon the place in the city where he prayed, next to the church. citation Bethlehem then passed through the control of the Islamic caliphates of the Umayyads in the 8th century, then the Abbasids in the 9th century.

Architecture As the power shifted from the Umayyads to the Abbasids, the architecture styles changed also.

Charles temporarily put the conflict with Hunald on hold, and descended on the Provençal strongholds of the Umayyads.

Despite numerous battles, neither the Umayyads nor the Asturians had sufficient forces to secure control over these northern territories.

Diwan al-Jund The Diwan of Umar, assigning annuities to all Arabs and to the Muslim soldiers of other races, underwent a change in the hands of the Umayyads.

Diwan al-Rasa'il A regular Board of Correspondence was established under the Umayyads.

Duke Eudes mustered a force ready to engage the Umayyads outside Bordeaux, eventually taking on them in the Battle of the River Garonne somewhere near the river Dordogne, described as taking a heavy death toll.

Eventually, this meant that many Abbasid caliphs were relegated to a more ceremonial role than under the Umayyads, as the viziers began to exert greater influence, and the role of the old Arab aristocracy was slowly replaced by a Persian bureaucracy.

Following the murder of the latter in 743, the Caliphate of the Umayyads—which by then stretched from Spain to India— was crumbling as a result of widespread revolts.

His death signalled the end of Umayyad rule in the East, and was followed by the massacre of Umayyads by the Abbasids.

In 737 Charles Martel led an expedition south down the Rhone Valley to assert his authority up to the lands held by the Al-Andalus Umayyads.

It appears that the Umayyads were not aware of the true strength of the Franks.

It does not contain any anti Umayyad content because it was more concerned with what the Quran and what Muhammad said and was not a history book on the Umayyads.

Marwan recaptured Egypt for the Umayyads, but died in 685, having reigned for only nine months.