-
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...
- than
under his
Sufyanid predecessors, a
result of the clan's
exile to the city from Medina. He
maintained close ties with the
Sufyanids through marital...
- and most
prestigious Umayyads at a time when
there were few
experienced Sufyanids of
mature age.
Bosworth speculates that it "may have been
fears of the...
- 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...
- al-Zubayr of
Mecca as caliph. The Banu Kalb, old
tribal allies of the
Sufyanids (the line of
Umayyads descended from Yazid's father,
founder of the Umayyad...
-
under his
Sufyanid predecessors, a
result of the clan's
exile to the city from
Medina in 683. He
maintained close ties with the
Sufyanids through marital...
-
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...
- Khalid, Umm
Hashim Fakhita,
thereby establishing a
political link with the
Sufyanids.
Wellhausen viewed the
marriage as an
attempt by
Marwan to
seize the inheritance...
- 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...
