-
without naming a successor. His
death marked the end of the Umayyads'
Sufyanid ruling house,
called after Mu'awiya I's
father Abu Sufyan.
Umayyad authority...
-
authority was
challenged in the
Second Muslim Civil War,
during which the
Sufyanid line of Mu'awiya was
replaced in 684 by
Marwan I, who
founded the Marwanid...
- of the
first Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) and
namesake of the
Sufyanid line of
Umayyad caliphs which ruled from 661 to 684. Abu
Sufyan was a leader...
-
founded the
Marwanid ruling house of the
Umayyad dynasty,
which replaced the
Sufyanid house after its
collapse in the
Second Fitna and
remained in
power until...
-
succeeded his
father Yazid I as the
third caliph and last
caliph of the
Sufyanid line in the
Umayyad dynasty. He
ruled briefly in 683–684 (64 AH) before...
- Marwan, the
latter nominated his son Abd al-Malik as his heir. Thus the
Sufyanid house,
named after Mu'awiya I's
father Abu Sufyan, was
replaced by the...
-
Allah and
their maternal kinsmen from the Banu Kalb. The
eldest surviving Sufyanid, al-Walid may have
intended to
claim the
mantle of succession, but died...
- Quda'a. With this, the Kalb
became the most
influential tribe during the
Sufyanid period (661–684) of the
Umayyad Caliphate. Mu'awiya was
careful to keep...
- Tillier, Mathieu; Vanthieghem, Naïm (11
April 2019), "Recording
debts in
Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a
reexamination of the
procedures and
calendar in use in the first/seventh...
-
ruled from his
power base in
Damascus in Syria. Mu'awiya
belonged to the
Sufyanid line of the
Umayyad clan,
while Abd al-Malik
belonged to the
larger Abu...
