- a variation of Omayyad.
Umayyad
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Devoted Shia Muslims take pride in martyrdom, commemorating the Battle of Karbala in 680 where Hussein was killed by Umayyad caliph Yazid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We’re happy, of course, but we’re afraid of what’s coming,” said Muna Maidani, a 28-year-old who was walking near Umayyad Square — one of the Syrian capital’s most famous landmarks — with her two children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
People had gathered in the central Umayyad Square, overcome by the extraordinary end to more than five decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad regime – father and son.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
It moved westward to the Middle East about 1200 years ago, a date that coincides with the expansion of trade and warfare by two Islamic caliphates, the Umayyad and the Abbasid.
From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2024
At first conquest, expansion, and organisation, then Umayyad literature. civil strife absorbed the nation's energies; then, under the Umayyads, the old pagan spirit asserted itself once more.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
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