The Second Fitna was a period of general political and military disorder and civil war in the Islamic community during the early Umayyad Caliphate. It...

Mu'awiya's death in 680, conflicts over the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell to Marwan I, from another branch of the clan...

Fitna (or fitnah, pl. fitan; Arabic: فتنة , فتن: "temptation, trial; sedition, civil strife, conflict") is an Arabic term that denotes concepts such as...

governors kept the Kharijites in check. The power vacuum caused by the Second Fitna (680–692) allowed for the resumption of the Kharijites' anti-government...

Look up fitna or fitnah in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fitna or Fitnah may refer to: Fitna (word), an Arabic term meaning 'trial' or 'civil strife';...

pro-Alid uprisings against the Umayyads during the civil war of the Second Fitna. Instead, he devoted his life to worship and learning, and was highly...

family members were taken prisoner. The battle was the start of the Second Fitna, during which the Iraqis organized two separate campaigns to avenge the...

the First Fitna (656–616 AD) (the view of Muhammad Mustafa Azmi), the Second Fitna (680–692) (the view of G.H.A. Juynboll), or the Third Fitna (744–750)...

dynasty, which replaced the Sufyanid house after its collapse in the Second Fitna and remained in power until 750. During the reign of his cousin Uthman...

orders of Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna in 691–692 CE, and it has since been situated on top of the site of the Second Jewish Temple (built in c. 516...

the Second Islamic Civil War (Second Fitna). His wife was the sister to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who ruled Iraq from 685 to 687, during the Second Fitna. He...

Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (محمد بن سعد بن أبي وقاص) (fl. 683 – c. 702) was a military person, particularly known for his role in the rebellion of...

captured Medina from its Zubayrid governor before becoming al-Hajjaj’s second-in-command at Mecca. Fishbein 1990, p. 212. Fishbein 1990, p. 194. Yavari...

the Umayyad army regarding alliances and wrongdoings during the Second and Third Fitna. At this time Kufa was the center for the opposition to Umayyad...

the Mecca-based counter-caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, during the Second Fitna. Mus'ab was a son of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, a prominent companion of...

Abd Allah ibn Kamil al-Shakiri (Arabic: عبد الله بن كامل الشاكري) was a commander in Mukhtar al-Thaqafi’s army. He was born in Basra (or Ahvaz in some...

Africa and northern Iran in 647 and 650, respectively. During the First Fitna, he fought on the side of his aunt A'isha against Caliph Ali (r. 656–661)...

various Qaysi tribes. He placed Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni of Kindah as his second-in-command, and Shurahbil ibn Dhi'l Kala' of Himyar, Adham ibn Muhriz of...

First Fitna (656–661) as a youth, and supported his elder brother Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in his failed attempt to establish his caliphate in the Second Fitna...

Mosul's eastern environs, in modern-day Iraq. The battle occurred during the Second Muslim Civil War and was part of the larger struggle for control of Iraq...

Muhammad's grandson Husayn ibn Ali and the start of the crisis known as the Second Fitna. During his father's caliphate, Yazid led several campaigns against the...

caliphate, but in 680–683, opponents of Umayyad rule revolted, launching the Second Muslim Civil War. The Umayyads lost control over most of the Caliphate's...

; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_4151....

Mecca in September–November 683 was one of the early battles of the Second Fitna. The city of Mecca was a sanctuary for Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, who was...

(2000). The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661–750 (Second ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0415240727. Howard, I.K.A. (1986). "Husayn the Martyr:...

The siege of Mecca (Arabic: حصار مكة) occurred at the end of the Second Fitna in 692 when the forces of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan besieged...

undertaken by the Umayyad Caliphate on the orders of Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna in 691–692 CE. The original dome collapsed in 1015 and was rebuilt in...

Ḥubaysh ibn Dulja al-Qaynī (Arabic: حبيش بْن دلجة القيني) (died 684) was a tribal leader of the Quda'a in Jund al-Urdunn (district of Jordan) and a commander...

a son of the second Caliph Umar. He was a prominent authority in hadith and law. He remained neutral during the events of the first Fitna (656–661). Abd...

; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 45. OCLC 495469456....