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Umayyad Caliphate

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Umayyad Naval Expeditions and Mediterranean Raids (7th–8th centuries)

649 - 746

Umayyad Monumental Architecture: the Dome of the Rock and the Great Mosque of Damascus (c. 688–715)

685 - 1893

Umayyad Military Campaigns against Byzantium (c. 670–740)

6701 - 7400

Umayyad Court Culture: Patronage of Poetry, Scholarship, and the Arts (661–750)

661 - 750

Umayyad Conquest of Hispania and the Formation of Al-Andalus (711–756)

711 - 756

The Second Fitna and the Wars of Succession (680–692)

680 - 692

The Abbasid Revolution and the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate

740 - 750

Religious Policies and Sectarian Conflict: Shiʿite and Kharijite Opposition (680–750)

68001 - 74706

Reign of Caliph al-Walid I: Expansion and Building Programs (705–715)

7050 - 7150

Reign of Caliph Abd al-Malik and Centralization of the State (685–705)

685 - 705

Provincial Rule in Ifriqiya and the Maghreb under the Umayyads (680s–740s)

670 - 742

Mu'awiya I's Consolidation of Power and the Establishment of the Umayyad Dynasty (661–680)

639 - 680

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