House Islam
Umayyad dynasty
بنو أمية ar امویان fa
Arab Hijaz dynasty
- Dated from 661 CE
- Also called Umayyads, Ommiades, Banū Umayya
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 12
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
4 children in the house
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Al-Walid I 668 CE – 715 CE 2 children in the house
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Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik 675 CE – 717 CE -
Yazid II 687 CE – 724 CE -
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik 691 CE – 743 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Yazid ibn Abi Sufyanuntil 639 CE · Child of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb -
Ibrahim ibn al-Waliduntil 29 January 750 CE · Child of Al-Walid I - Harb ibn Umayyac. 520 CE – c. 595 CE · father of Abu Sufyan and Arwa
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Abu Sufyan ibn Harbc. 570 CE – 640 CE · Child of Harb ibn Umayya -
Mu'awiya I603 CE – 680 CE · Child of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb -
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwanc. 646 CE – 9 October 705 CE · Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705 -
Yazid I646 CE – 11 November 683 CE · Child of Mu'awiya I - Al-Walid I668 CE – 23 February 715 CE · Child of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik675 CE – 24 September 717 CE · Child of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
- Yazid II687 CE – 28 January 724 CE · Child of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik691 CE – 6 February 743 CE · Child of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
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Yazid III701 CE – 25 September 744 CE · Child of Al-Walid I
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Umayyad Caliph
- 9 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1st 28 July 661 CE – 27 April 680 CE Mu'awiya I founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680) -
2nd 27 April 680 CE – 11 November 683 CE Yazid I second caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683) -
Gap about 2 years before the next in this house
5th 12 April 685 CE – 4 October 705 CE Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705 -
6th 9 October 705 CE – 23 February 715 CE Al-Walid I Umayyad caliph -
7th 23 February 715 CE – 24 September 717 CE Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik Umayyad caliph -
Gap about 3 years before the next in this house
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10th 26 January 724 CE – 6 February 743 CE Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik tenth Umayyad caliph -
12th 17 April 744 CE – 4 October 744 CE Yazid III Umayyad caliph in 744 -
13th 4 October 744 CE – 4 December 744 CE Ibrahim ibn al-Walid Umayyad caliph in 744
Governor of the Levant
- 2 holders
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- 640 CE – 661 CE Mu'awiya I founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680)
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640 CE Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan 7th-century Arab military commander
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Umayyad dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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