Criterion (iii): Quseir Amra bears exceptional testimony to the Umayyad civilization which was imbued with a pre-Islamic secular culture and whose austere religious environment left little trace in ...

The first Islamic Caliphate, established following the death of Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD, the Umayyad dynasty spanned over a massive 4 million square miles, making the empire one of the largest ...

The empire was also sometimes called the Achaemenid ... Considered among the largest empires, the Umayyad Caliphate was founded in 632 CE. The Umayyad Caliphate, the second of the four major ...