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 ...

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 ...

After Muhammad's death, leaders called caliphs ruled the Islamic Empire and it continued to grow ... followed by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid Caliphate. The Islamic Golden age began ...