Umayyad
Americannoun
noun
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The first pope to officially enter a mosque was John Paul II, who made history when he visited the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 2001.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
For weeks, Damascus's main Umayyad Square became a hub of celebrations.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
“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
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
The wide scope of the term is shown by the fact that he includes under it the pagan chiefs of Quraysh; the Umayyad Caliph Walíd b.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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