Umayyads are Muslims, they represented an important Islamic age in which they ruled the Islamic country & their capital was Damascus.at first they were good rulers but then they stopped behaving like proper Muslims and started drinking wine.
Umayyads
because the Umayyads separated themselves from the general islamic populace and surrounded themselves with foreigners.
Umayyads are Muslims, they represented an important Islamic age in which they ruled the Islamic country & their capital was Damascus.at first they were good rulers but then they stopped behaving like proper Muslims and started drinking wine.
Between the two types of the Islamic religion it was the Sunni.
The Umayyads followers of more traditional Islamic faith (Sunnis as opposed to Shiites more radical followers) advanced in battle spreading Islamic faithg to all regions.In Jerusalem they built the first major mosque Dome of the Rock
No. The Umayyads ruled initially from Damascus (660s-750s) until they were overthrown by the Abbassids. Abd er-Rahman re-established the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) in the city of Córdoba. The Umayyads ruled from this city until the dynasty ended (750s-1030s). However, the Umayyads never ruled from Medina.
The Islamic equivalent of the Christian Holy Bible is the Quran.
Umayyads were the descendants of Umayya whose father was Abd-Shams of the city of Mecca . Abd-Shams was a son of Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. Abd Manaf ibn Qusai had another son by name Hashim whose son was the Prophet Mohammed.
Three things the Umayyads did to carry out the ideals of Muhammad: 1. Minted pure Islamic coins that were inscribed in Arabic with important quotations from the Koran. 2. The built a mosque on every neq land the conquered. 3. They declared the official language of the Islamic empire to be Arabic, the language Muhammad spoke.
Iraq is an Islamic country & it has a Christian minority.
They did not. The Umayyads had no accepted religious authority, therefore they could not change Islamic Law or strongly influence it. However, under the Umayyad, the role of the Alim (or scholar) came to the fore as the primary source from which Qur'an could learned.
Samarkand was the Central Asian trading city attacked by the Umayyads. The city of Samarkand is most noted for its central position on the Silk Road between China and the West, and for being an Islamic centre for scholarly study.