- a variation of Omayyad.
Ommiad
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Under the Ommiad Caliphs, Syria, so long a pawn, became the heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ibn-al-Arabi was governor of Saragossa, and one of the Spanish-Arab chieftains in league against Abdel-Rhaman, the last offshoot of the Ommiad caliphs, who, with the assistance of the Berbers, had seized the government of Spain.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Arabian civilization, for about four centuries under the Ommiad and Abbasid caliphs, far surpassed anything to be found in western Europe.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
We know that the Ommiad dynasty formed the gigantic library at Cordova, and that there were at least seventy others in the colleges that were scattered through the kingdom of Granada.
From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton
They begin with Mawiyeh ibn Ommiyah, founder of the Ommiad dynasty, and end with Mostasem Billah, the last Sultan of the Abbasides.
From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
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