Islam as a religion began to expand to places not yet conquered by the Umayyad Caliphs and their armies, resulting in an expansion of the Islamic World that was greater than the size of the actual Empire. The Empire, though, remained the primary method of Islamic Expansion in this period and this was facilitated by armies and conquest.
The Umayyads are an Arabian tribe that moved from central Arabia to Damascus during the rule of the Caliph Omar to be the leaders of the Damascus Governate. Their authority expanded under Caliph Othman, who was a cousin of the Umayyads.
They united various Muslim factions, and encouraged Umayyad loyalists to come to Spain. ... They created a strong, unified Muslim kingdom with Cordoba as its capital.What was the basis for Cordoba's greatness under the Umayyads?
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The Caliphs including the Rashidun, the Umayyads, and the Abbassids.
Umayyads
The Umayyads, specifically the first Umayyad ruler, Mu'awiya I.
Yes. The Umayyads were Sunni Moslems and brought that faith with them wherever they went.
Baghdad and Cordoba were the two centres of great learning during the Caliphate of Abbasids and Umayyads.
The Turkish migrations greatly expanded and empowered the Muslim World. The Seljuks and Ottomans were responsible for the last two great Muslim Empires and conquests. It was the Ottomans who pushed the boundaries of Islam all the way to the Gates of Vienna. On the eastern edge, the Turkish migrations into Xinjiang Province led to the development of the Hui People (Muslim Chinese).
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I think they let the non-muslims in their empire and they continued worshipping what they worship but they had to pay a special tax.
There is no such group. The Umayyads were supported by the Sunnis because they had temporal power, but the Sunnis never had a requirement that the ruler need be a descendant of the Umayyads; their precondition for having the right to rule was having the power to effectively govern.Perhaps this question confuses the Shiite requirement that a rightful ruler be a descendant of Ali ibn AbuTalib. Ali and the Umayyads were enemies and are in-no-way related.