The first major caliphate was the Rashidun Caliphate, followed by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid Caliphate. The Islamic Golden age began during the Abbasid caliphate which was centred ...

Soon archaeologists concluded that the palace had been built during the reign of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the tenth Umayyad caliph (r. A.D. 724-743), Islam’s chief religious and political leader.

Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course. Op-ed.

The majestic Umayyad mosque was completed in the year 715 by the sixth Umayyad Caliph, al-Walid. The mosque is built on a site that has been in continuous use for several millennia as a house of ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

Wallada the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs alMustakfi murdered ... evocating the civil war and the fall of the Umayyad caliphate of alAndalus ...