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Also Known As Moawiyah I • Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān
Born c.602 • Mecca • Saudi Arabia
Died April 680 or May 680 • Damascus • Syria
Title / Office caliph (661-680)
House / Dynasty Umayyad dynasty
Notable Family Members son Yazīd I
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād
Muslim general
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
al-Hādī
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Narses
Syrian theologian
Justinian I
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor
Heraclius
Heraclius
Byzantine emperor
Basil II
Byzantine emperor
Belisarius
Belisarius
Byzantine general
Constans II Pogonatus
Constans II Pogonatus
Byzantine emperor
Harald III Sigurdsson
king of Norway
al-Mahdī
Sudanese religious leader
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Abdelkader
Abdelkader
Algerian leader
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Muḥammad XII
Naṣrid ruler