often attributive
: a member of a dynasty of caliphs based in Damascus that ruled from A.D. 661 to 750
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Medina Azahara Built in the mid-10th century by the Umayyad dynasty, Medina Azahara is a magnificent city that was discovered in the early 20th century after having been forgotten for nearly 1,000 years.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2024
This history unfolded primarily under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates but also under the Fatimid and Hafsid ones.
—Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
The institution of the caliphate, now arrogated to themselves by the Umayyads, was thus transformed into arbitrary hereditary rule.
—Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
For historians, the history of al-Andalus begins in 711, when Umayyad armies commanded by Tariq ibn Ziyad conquered most of Iberia from the Visigothic kings.
—Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
Roman, Umayyad, Mamluk,Ottoman, British, and, among others, its future liberated state, with a robust network of trade and transportation.
—Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
The Umayyad Caliphate ruled from the city of Córdoba for a century, turning Spain into a thriving center of art, literature and science, a florescence that continued when the peninsula was split into separate Muslim kingdoms after 1031.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
After years of civil war, as well as wars of expansion, the Arab Umayyad dynasty established its rule over the region, from the Middle East to North Africa from A.D. 661 to 750.
—Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2024
This history unfolded primarily under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates but also under the Fatimid and Hafsid ones.
—Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
The institution of the caliphate, now arrogated to themselves by the Umayyads, was thus transformed into arbitrary hereditary rule.
—Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
For historians, the history of al-Andalus begins in 711, when Umayyad armies commanded by Tariq ibn Ziyad conquered most of Iberia from the Visigothic kings.
—Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
Roman, Umayyad, Mamluk,Ottoman, British, and, among others, its future liberated state, with a robust network of trade and transportation.
—Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
The Umayyad Caliphate ruled from the city of Córdoba for a century, turning Spain into a thriving center of art, literature and science, a florescence that continued when the peninsula was split into separate Muslim kingdoms after 1031.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
After years of civil war, as well as wars of expansion, the Arab Umayyad dynasty established its rule over the region, from the Middle East to North Africa from A.D. 661 to 750.
—Edith Szanto, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
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