List of Umayyad Caliphs

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List of Umayyad Caliphs are rulers from the Umayyad dynasty who ruled the Islamic territories for ninety-one years (41/661-132/749). The number of Umayyad caliphs is fourteen. The first of them was Mu'awiya and the last was Marwan b. Muhammad.

Sufyanids

The names of the Umayyad caliphs, whose lineage goes back to Abu Sufyan, are as follows:

  1. Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan (41[1]/661 - 60[2]/680]]
  2. Yazid b. Mu'awiya (60/680 - 64[3]/683)
  3. Mu'awiya b. Yazid (about forty days in 64[4]/683)

Marwanids

The Umayyad caliphs, whose lineage goes back to Hakam b. Abi al-'As b. Umayya, who are known as Marwanids because of the first caliph (Marwan).

  1. Marwan b. al-Hakam (64/683 - 65[5]/685)
  2. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (65/684-5 - 86[6]/705)
  3. Walid b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (86/705 - 96[7]/714)
  4. Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (96/714 - 99[8]/717-8)
  5. 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz (99/717-8 - 101[9]/720)
  6. Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (101/720 - 105[10]/723-4)
  7. Hisham b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (105/723-4 - 125[11]/742-3)
  8. Walid b. Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik (Known as al-Khalifa al-Fasiq (the Wicked Caliph)) (125/742-3 - 126[12]/744)
  9. Yazid b. Walid b. 'Abd al-Malik (Known as Yazid al-Naqis (Yazid the Diminisher)) (6 months in the year 126[13]/744)
  10. Ibrahim b. Walid b. 'Abd al-Malik (126/744 - 127[14]/744)
  11. Marwan b. Muhammad b. Marwan (Known as Marwan al-Himar (Marwan the Donkey)) (127/744 - 132[15]/750)

Notes

  1. ↑ Khuḍarī Bak, al-dawla al-Umawīyya, p. 265.
  2. ↑ Khuḍarī Bak, al-dawla al-Umawīyya, p. 282.
  3. ↑ Khuḍarī Bak, al-dawla al-Umawīyya, p. 291.
  4. ↑ Yaʿqūbī, Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī, vol. 2, p. 254.
  5. ↑ Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿāb, vol. 3, p. 1389.
  6. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 162.
  7. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 168.
  8. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 169.
  9. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 171.
  10. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 184.
  11. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 185.
  12. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 186.
  13. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 189.
  14. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 189.
  15. ↑ Suyūṭī, Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ, vol. 1, p. 190.

References

  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf b. ʿAbd Allāh. Al-Istīʿāb fī maʿrifat al-aṣḥāb. Edited by ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Bajāwī. Beirut: Dār al-Jīl, 1412 AH.
  • Khuḍarī Bak, Muḥammad al-. Al-dawla al-Umawīyya. Edited by Muḥammad ʿUthmānī. Beirut: Dār al-Arqam, [n.d].
  • Suyūṭī, Jalāl al-Dīn. Tārīkh al-khulafāʾ. Edited by Ḥamdī al-Dimirdāsh. Riyadh: Maktabat Nazār Muṣṭafā al-Bāz, 1425 AH.
  • Yaʿqūbī, Aḥmad b. Abī Yaʿqūb al-. Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, [n.d].
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