The Umayyad Period
العصر الأموي
661 CE · 41 AH – 750 CE · 132 AH
The caliphate ruled from Damascus by the Umayyad dynasty, from the end of the first civil war to the Abbasid revolution.
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- Levant & Iraq
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Sources
- Hodgson, The Venture of Islam (1974)
- Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (1991)
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