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The 108 pages that link to Umayyad Caliphate, each with the reason it gives.

• Abbasid CaliphateCompared with: The Abbasids replaced the Umayyads and challenged their political legitimacy.

• Sunni IslamRelated: Umayyad rule established the first hereditary caliphate after the early succession conflicts.

• Shia IslamRelated: Its rule followed Ali’s death and culminated in the conflict at Karbala.

• Rashidun CaliphateBroader topic: It succeeded Rashidun rule and made dynastic succession a durable feature of the state.

• First FitnaRelated: Muawiya’s victory transformed the postwar settlement into a dynastic government.

• Battle of KarbalaNarrower topic: The forces that fought Husayn served the dynasty’s government under Yazid.

• Islamic historiographyRelated: Its expansion and political memory formed important subjects of early historical accounts.

• Abbasid RevolutionCompared with: Its overthrow was the revolution’s central political outcome.

• Islamic artRelated: Umayyad patrons commissioned early monuments that combined inherited regional forms with new Islamic messages.

• CaliphateBroader topic: The Umayyads transformed leadership into a dynastic empire.

• Husayn ibn AliNarrower topic: Its transfer of power to Yazid set the political conditions for Husayn’s revolt.

• Early Muslim conquestsNarrower topic: Umayyad rule extended the campaigns into North Africa, Iberia, and Central Asia.

• Succession to MuhammadRelated: Muawiya’s accession after the First Fitna shifted leadership toward dynastic rule.

• DamascusRelated: Damascus served as the dynasty’s capital and imperial center.

• Mu'awiya INarrower topic: Mu'awiya founded the dynasty and established the institutions that sustained its rule.

• Battle of SiffinNarrower topic: Muawiya’s eventual victory established this dynasty after the civil war.

• Ahl al-BaytRelated: Umayyad rule shaped the political setting in which Alid opposition developed.

• AshuraRelated: Yazid I's rule and the conflict at Karbala frame Ashura's historical memory.

• AishaNarrower topic: Its establishment followed the conflicts over succession in which Aisha had participated.

• EmirateRelated: Its provincial governors and commanders helped establish emir as a political title.

• IslamizationBroader topic: Its imperial administration governed populations whose conversion proceeded unevenly.

• Arab–Byzantine warsRelated: Umayyad rulers organized repeated offensives against Byzantine territory, including the siege of Constantinople.

• Dome of the RockRelated: The shrine was built during Umayyad rule, under the patronage of Abd al-Malik.

• Hasan ibn AliBroader topic: Muawiya’s rule began the dynasty that replaced Hasan’s brief leadership.

• KarbalaRelated: The Umayyad ruler Yazid I’s forces fought Husayn at Karbala.

• Umayyad conquest of HispaniaNarrower topic: The conquest extended this empire’s western frontier into Iberia.

• Ja'far al-SadiqNarrower topic: Ja'far grew up under Umayyad rule before the Abbasids took power.

• ArabizationBroader topic: The Umayyads made Arabic the language of the central administration across much of their empire.

• Battle of TalasCompared with: The dynasty that lost Central Asia twice: to the Khazars and Kharijites at home, then to revolution, before Talas confirmed Abbasid control.

• Abd al-Malik ibn MarwanNarrower topic: His consolidation turned a fractured dynasty into a durable imperial government.

• Battle of the CamelRelated: The civil war that included the battle ended with Muawiya’s establishment of Umayyad rule.

• Battle of ToursNarrower topic: The force in the campaign belonged to its western province of al-Andalus.

• Abd al-Rahman INarrower topic: Abd al-Rahman belonged to its ruling family before the Abbasid revolution drove him west.

• Abd Allah ibn al-ZubayrCompared with: It was the governing power Ibn al-Zubayr challenged and the regime that defeated him.

• AniconismRelated: Its monuments reveal early Islamic uses of inscriptions and ornament in religious architecture.

• Emirate of CórdobaNarrower topic: The emirate's founder belonged to this dynasty, overthrown in the Abbasid Revolution.

• Yazid INarrower topic: Yazid inherited its institutions and became its second caliph.

• DhimmīBroader topic: Its administration developed practices for governing expanding religiously diverse territories.

• Early Islamic historiographyNarrower topic: Many formative events and later memories examined by historians arose under Umayyad rule.

• Muslim conquest of the LevantRelated: Damascus became the center of a caliphate built upon the conquered Syrian territories.

• Siege of Constantinople (717–718)Narrower topic: It organized the expedition intended to capture the Byzantine capital.

• Umayyad Caliphate of CórdobaNarrower topic: Córdoba’s rulers claimed continuity with the dynasty’s earlier caliphal tradition.

• Al-Walid INarrower topic: Al-Walid governed this empire during its greatest period of territorial expansion.

• Arab identityBroader topic: Its administration and expansion strengthened Arabic’s reach across a wide territory.

• Battle of GuadaleteNarrower topic: Its western expansion supplied the authority and forces behind the Iberian campaign.

• JizyaRelated: Its expansion forced administrators to define taxation for newly conquered populations.

• John of DamascusNarrower topic: John lived and worked under Umayyad rule in the Near East.

• Leo III the IsaurianRelated: Its expansion brought sustained military pressure to Leo’s eastern frontier and capital.

• Tariq ibn ZiyadNarrower topic: The expedition that Tariq led was part of this empire’s westward expansion.

• ZaydismRelated: Zayd ibn Ali rebelled against Umayyad authority and its treatment of the Prophet’s family.