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Also Known As Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad
Born c.709 or c.714 • Jordan
Died October 7, 775 • near Mecca • Saudi Arabia
Title / Office caliph (754-775), Caliphate
Founder Baghdad
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
ʿUmar II
Umayyad caliph
Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
Arab general
Homs: mosque of Khālid ibn al-Walīd
Khālid ibn al-Walīd
Arab Muslim general
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād
Muslim general
Yazīd I
Umayyad caliph
al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrā
Arabian general
al-Mutawakkil
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Balādhurī
Muslim historian
Marwān II
Umayyad caliph