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بَنُو أُمَيَّة
Banu Umayyah
The first dynasty of caliphs, ruling from Damascus for about ninety years after the Rashidun.
Also written · Umayyads · Umayyad · Umayyad Caliphate · Bani Umayyah · Banu Umayya · Emeviler · Ummayad · Umawi · Umayyad dynasty · Muawiyah · Muawiya · Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan · Yazid
The meaning
What Banu Umayyah means in Islam
It began with Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, a Companion and scribe of revelation, and turned the caliphate into an inherited office. Under them the state reached Spain in the west and the Indus in the east, Arabic became the language of administration, coinage was reformed, and the Dome of the Rock was built. Muslim assessment of them is mixed and always has been. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, the exception nearly everyone praises, came from this family.
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- KhilafahSuccession to the Prophet in governing the community, not in prophethood, which ended with him.الخِلَافَة
- Umar ibn Abd al-AzizThe Umayyad caliph whose short reign is remembered as a return to the way of the Rashidun.عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ العَزِيز
- KarbalaThe plain in Iraq where Husayn and his household were killed on the tenth of Muharram, year 61.كَرْبَلَاء
- Al-Fitnah al-UlaThe first civil war among Muslims, from the killing of Uthman to the death of Ali.الفِتْنَةُ الأُولَى
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- Bay'at al-AqabahTwo secret pledges by men of Madinah that opened the way for the Hijrah.بَيْعَةُ العَقَبَة
- HijrahThe Prophet's migration from Makkah to Madinah in 622, the start of the Muslim calendar.الهِجْرَة
- Imam MalikThe imam of Madinah, who taught in the Prophet's mosque and wrote the Muwatta.مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَس
- Khutbat al-WadaThe sermon given at Arafah during the Farewell Pilgrimage, months before the Prophet died.خُطْبَةُ الوَدَاع
- SahabahThe Companions: anyone who met the Prophet as a believer and died still believing.الصَّحَابَة