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Homs: mosque of Khālid ibn al-Walīd
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Also Known As Sayf Allāh • Sīf Allāh
Died 642
Role In Battle of Yarmouk

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Homs: mosque of Khālid ibn al-Walīd
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Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
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ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād
Muslim general
al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrā
Arabian general
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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ʿAbd al-Malik
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Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar II
Umayyad caliph
Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Yazīd I
Umayyad caliph
al-Mutawakkil
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Balādhurī
Muslim historian
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb al-Manṣūr
Almohad and Muʾminid ruler