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    Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; 623 or 626 – April/May 685), commonly known as Marwan I, was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684–685...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    ending with the establishment of the Marwanid dynasty (the Umayyad caliph Marwan I and his descendants). Yazid continued Mu'awiya's decentralized model of...
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  • and Marwanid house, through her second marriage to fourth Umayyad caliph Marwan I. The names of two of Yazid's known wives are: Umm Khalid Fakhita bint Abi...
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  • Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (Arabic: عَبْدِ الْعَزِيز بْنِ مَرْوَان بْنِ الْحَكَم, romanized: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam; died 12 May...
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  • War, during which the Sufyanid line of Mu'awiya was replaced in 684 by Marwan I, who founded the Marwanid line of Umayyad caliphs, which restored the dynasty's...
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    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...
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    Marwan Barghouti (also transliterated al-Barghuthi; Arabic: مروان البرغوثي; born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political leader convicted and imprisoned...
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    Ashraf Marwan (Arabic: أشرف مروان‎, 2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007) was an Egyptian billionaire who worked as a spy for the Israeli Mossad. From 1969 on...
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    revolt came to a complete stop. Umayyad power temporarily collapsed until Marwan I took back control. In his al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, Ibn Arabi claimed that...
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    of caliphs Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) and Yazid I (r. 680–683), and the leading general of the Umayyad army under caliphs Marwan I (r. 684–685) and Abd...
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  • ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam (Arabic: عبيد الله بن مروان بن الحكم) was an Umayyad prince and commander. He was the son of the Umayyad caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685)...
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    doi:10.1163/157005894X00191. JSTOR 4057449. Bosworth, C. Edmund (1991). "Marwān I b. al-Ḥakam". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.)....
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    the Hejaz. By 685, the Umayyad Caliphate had been reconstituted under Marwan I in Syria and Egypt, while Abd Allah's authority was being challenged in...
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    Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan (Arabic: عُمَر بْن عَبْد الْعَزِيز بْن مَرْوَان, romanized: ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān; c. 680 – February 720)...
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  • 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...
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  • the father of the founder of the Marwanid line of the Umayyad dynasty, Marwan I (r. 684–685), and a paternal uncle of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). He was...
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    of Marj Rahit against the Quda'a confederation and the Umayyad caliph Marwan I in 684 and practically diminished with the death of their leader at the...
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  • father of the Umayyad caliph Marwan I. Al-Mughira, maternal great-grandfather of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. He also had daughters: Safiyya...
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    Abu Marwan Bishr ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (Arabic: بشر بن مروان بن الحكم, romanized: Bishr ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam; c. 650s–694) was an Umayyad prince and...
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    revolt of Marwan II (r. 744–750), the grandson of Marwan I (r. 684–685) and governor of al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia). Reportedly, Marwan II, who for...
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  • of the Yaman tribal confederation, supporting the Umayyads under Caliph Marwan I, and the Qays under al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, who supported the Mecca-based...
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  • Yumna Marwan is a Lebanese-Palestinian television and film actress. Born in Lebanon, Marwan grew up in Beirut before moving to Iowa in the United States...
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  • was Marwan I as after the death of Yazid, the son of Mu'âwiyah and his son Muawiya II, Marwan I took control of the East and of Egypt. Marwan I made...
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  • military roles during the caliphates of Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), Yazid I (r. 680–683) and Marwan I (r. 684–685). Amr was a son of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656)...
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    capital to Kufa in Iraq. Muawiyah I, the governor of Syria, and Marwan I demanded arrest of the culprits. Marwan I manipulated every one and created conflict...
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  • Later, in 684, Jabiyah was the site of a summit of Arab tribes that chose Marwan I to succeed Caliph Mu'awiya II. Jabiyah was often used by the Umayyad caliphs...
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  • orbit. However, an Umayyad resurgence began with the accession of Caliph Marwan I, who dispatched an army led by Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad to reconquer Iraq...
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