Umayya ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Umawī; died 689/90), commonly known as al-Ashdaq (Arabic: الأشدق), was a member of the Umayyad dynasty, general and a contender...
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Byzantine Empire in 689, quashed a coup attempt in Damascus by his kinsman, al-Ashdaq, the following year, and reincorporated into the army the rebellious Qaysi...
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ibn al-Zubayr, a grandson of Abu Bakr, from leaving Medina. Al-Walid's replacement, the Umayyad Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq, failed to capture Ibn al-Zubayr...
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Umayyad dynasty (redirect from Al-ʾUmawīyūn)
Khalid, followed by Amr al-Ashdaq, the son of Sa'id ibn al-As. Marwan and the allied tribes, led by the Kalb, defeated Ibn al-Zubayr's supporters in Syria...
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prince Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq. Mus'ab was later appointed as governor of Medina. In 685, the pro-Alid revolutionary Mukhtar al-Thaqafi seized Kufa after...
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Amina, whose brother al-Ashdaq had been removed from the line of succession by Marwan and was killed in an attempt to topple Abd al-Malik. One of his wives...
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succeeded by his son Abd al-Malik in 685. In 689, Sufyan and Ibn Bahdal backed Abd al-Malik against the Umayyad prince Amr ibn Said al-Ashdaq when the latter rebelled...
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Abd Allah ibn Yazid (redirect from Al-Uswar)
Abd Allah was married to al-Ashdaq's daughter and counselled him not to respond to summons following the failed coup. Al-Ashdaq dismissed his brother-in-law's...
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ibn al-Hakam, another member of the Banu Umayya, who bore him his eldest son, Uthman al-Akbar, and sons Amr al-Ashdaq, Muhammad, Umar, Abd Allah al-Akbar...
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Jabiyah (redirect from Al-Jabiyah)
Khalid ibn Yazid, then Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq. "In this way the unity of the Umayyad party was restored, and al-Jabiya became the cradle of the Marwanid...
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Al-Walīd ibn ʿUtba ibn Abī Sufyān (Arabic: الوليد بن عتبة بن أبي سفيان) (died 684) was an Umayyad ruling family member and statesman during the reigns...
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Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (another tradition has Ubayd Allah commanding the cavalry and Malik ibn Hubayra al-Sakuni the infantry)...
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as Khalid ibn Yazid, who was favored by Ibn Bahdal, and Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq. He was to be rewarded for his stance when Marwan was chosen by the delegates...
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third Umayyad contender for the succession was the son of Sa'id ibn al-As, Amr al-Ashdaq, who had also forged marital ties with a leading Kalbite family....
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Abd Allah ibn Muti (redirect from Abd Allah ibn Muti al-Adawi)
Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ al-ʿAdawī (died 692) was a leading Qurayshi of Medina and governor of Kufa for the anti-Umayyad caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr from April...
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al-Malik to spare the life of Yahya ibn Sa'id, the brother of Abd al-Malik's kinsman Amr al-Ashdaq, who had been executed by the caliph in 689 after a failed...
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Battle of Maskin (redirect from Battle of Dayr al-Jathaliq)
the fighting in al-Jufra, Abd al-Malik had withdrawn from Butnan Habib to counter an attempted coup in Damascus by his kinsman al-Ashdaq. Mus'ab, upon his...
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Ibn Bahdal (redirect from Hassan ibn Malik al-Kalbi)
influence gradually receded. He supported Abd al-Malik against the Umayyad rebel Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq and was in the company of the Umayyads who witnessed...
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In 691, after stamping out a revolt in Damascus by his kinsman Amr al-Ashdaq, Abd al-Malik led his army in person on a campaign to take over Iraq, which...
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