The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (UK: /ʊˈmaɪjæd, uːˈ-/, US: /uːˈmaɪ(j)əd, -aɪæd/; Arabic: ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya)...

internally the Spanish Umayyads considered themselves as closer to Muhammad, and thus more legitimate, than the Abbasids. The caliphate enjoyed increased prosperity...

Rashidun Caliphate (632–661), the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750), and the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1517). In the fourth major caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, the...

(656–661) and afterward founded the Umayyad Caliphate with its capital in Damascus. This marked the beginning of the Umayyad dynasty, the first hereditary dynasty...

Rashidun caliphate ended with the First Fitna, which transferred authority to the Umayyad dynasty that presided over the Umayyad Caliphate, the largest...

part of the Umayyad Caliphate since the early 8th century CE. After the caliphate was overthrown by the Abbasid Revolution in 750, the Umayyad prince Abd...

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 710 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the defeat...

The war led to the overthrow of the Rashidun Caliphate and the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate in 661 by Mu'awiya. The civil war permanently consolidated...

the Rāshidūn Caliphate. The early Muslim conquests were responsible for the spread of Islam. By the 8th century CE, the Umayyad Caliphate extended from...

led by Khalid ibn al-Walid in 634. In 661, the Islamic Caliphate came under the rule of the Umayyad dynasty, which chose Damascus to be the administrative...