After the advent of Islam, Syria emerged as a major center of Islam. At the same time, the Umayyad caliphs made Damascus their capital. Apart from this, the Umayyad rulers had built many buildings ...

Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs. The most outstanding features of this small ...

The first major caliphate was the Rashidun Caliphate, followed by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid Caliphate. The Islamic Golden age began during the Abbasid caliphate which was centred ...

The majestic Umayyad mosque was completed in the year 715 by the sixth Umayyad Caliph, al-Walid. The mosque is built on a site that has been in continuous use for several millennia as a house of ...

Wallada the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs alMustakfi murdered in 1025 asserted herself throughout the 11th century as both a poetess and a free woman The first European woman to ...

Their differing ambitions—revival of the Ottoman Empire vs. restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course. Op-ed.