Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan (Arabic: مروان بن محمد بن مروان, romanized: Marwān ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān; c. 691– 6 August 750), commonly known as Marwan...

include: Marwan I, Umayyad caliph (r. 684–685) Marwan II, Umayyad caliph (r. 744–750) Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa (d. 797), Abbasid-era poet Marwan (rapper)...

Caliphate. It began with a revolt against Caliph al-Walid II in 744, and lasted until 747, when Marwan II emerged as the victor. The war exacerbated internal...

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (Arabic: عَبْد الْمَلِك ٱبْن مَرْوَان ٱبْن الْحَكَم, romanized: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam; July/August...

in 750 CE saw the Abbasid army triumph over the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II. This victory led to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty and the establishment...

Yazid III. Marwan II decided to oppose Yazid III, and even though he later gave allegiance to Yazid, on the early death of that caliph, Marwan continued...

Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya (Arabic: مروان بن الحكم بن أبي العاص بن أمية, romanized: Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; 623...

the state from within. Finally, in 750 the Abbasids overthrew Caliph Marwan II and massacred most of the family. One of the survivors, Abd al-Rahman...

Third Muslim Civil War and the succession of Caliph Marwan II (r. 744–750). He served as Marwan II's governor of Mecca, Medina and Ta'if in 747/48 and was...

an Umayyad province. His son Marwan II (r. 744–750) was the last Umayyad caliph. Muhammad was the son of Caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685) by a slave girl...

in August 749, either killed at the orders of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II, or from the plague. Shortly after, his brother Abu al-Abbas became the...

the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell to Marwan I, from another branch of the clan. Syria remained the Umayyads' main power...

caliph. One of his priorities was to eliminate his Umayyad rival, caliph Marwan II. The latter was defeated in February 750 at a battle on the (Great) Zab...

December 749, Abd al-Malik was selected to replace him by the Umayyad caliph Marwan II. Abd al-Malik's governorship was a turbulent one, as it coincided with...

shemoseva) took place from 735 to 737, initiated by last Umayyad caliph Marwan II against the Principality of Iberia. The goals of the campaign are disputed...

the army of the Umayyad caliph Marwan II fought a combined force of Abbasid, Shia, Khawarij, and Iraqi forces. Marwan's army was, on paper at least, far...

Umayyad house are hunted down and killed. Defeated by his rivals, Caliph Marwan II flees westward to Egypt, perhaps attempting to reach Al-Andalus (Iberian...

For instance, those opposed to Marwan II claimed that he was not truly the son of the Umayyad prince Muhammad ibn Marwan, suggesting that his slave mother...

ibn Hubayra, he became one of the most important partisans of Caliph Marwan II in the Third Fitna, but failed to stem the onslaught of the Abbasid Revolution...

was ambushed and killed by Kawthar, the lieutenant of Marwan ibn Muhammad (later Caliph Marwan II). Following his death the Khazars sued for peace. Peter...

managed to flee to Istakhr in Persia. Following the death of Yazid III, Marwan II (r. 744–750), who seized the throne, appointed a supporter of his own...

which the Yaman killed Caliph Walid II for his dependence on the Qays. Yamani opposition continued under Caliph Marwan II, and the Yaman ultimately defected...

in Iraq against the Umayyad Caliph Marwan II from 745 until his death in battle in 746. The deposition of al-Walid II in spring 744 began a turbulent period...

prospered and was selected as the capital by the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II, from 744 to 750. This move may have been influenced by the city's pagan...

broke out in Syria in 745 after Marwan II had become the new caliph and was soon joined by the Palestinian tribes. Marwan II quelled the uprising but another...

family of Muhammad, the Hashemites, during the reign of Umar II. During the reign of Marwan II, this opposition culminated in the rebellion of Ibrahim al-Imam...

mixed results. In 732, he was replaced by his cousin, the future caliph Marwan II (r. 744–750). Maslama was granted extensive estates by his brothers, investing...

Silver dirham of Marwan II ibn Muhammad 749–745 CE...

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. Atika was the daughter of second Umayyad caliph Yazid. She was the sister of third Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya II. Before Yazid I...

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Arabic: هِشَام ابْن عَبْد الْمَلِك ٱبْن مَرْوَان, romanized: Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; c. 691 – 6 February 743)...