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Born April 1096 • Iraq
Died 1160 (aged 63) • Iraq
Title / Office caliph (1136-1160), Caliphate
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
Ibn al-Ashʿath
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