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Personal Facts

Umayyad Empire during his reign

Yin-Yang Effect

Friends

• Expanded Empire.

• Created tension through war, therefore Sunni and Shi’a split,

• His rule was naturally violent.

• "He was beautiful, white [delightful] skin, had white [beard] and hair, wide shoulders and wide hips. His upper lip moved up when [he] laugh[ed]." (The Portrait)

• Born on 602 AD to Abu Sufyan

• Reigned from 661-680 AD

• Sunni

• Died 680 AD

• Legitimacy came from fighting ‘Ali for the caliphate and winning.

• Muslims/Ottoman (later in his life)

• Muhammad

Successes

• Conquered Northern Africa, Spain, and some of the Iberian

Peninsula

• Created and ruled the largest Empire at the time

Ambition

• To hold the Shi’a and Sunni together

• Annihilation of past enemies and conquest of the middle east, Anatolian and Iberian Peninsulas and Northern Africa.

Enemies

Muawiyah (Mu’ Awiyah) ibn Abu Sufyan

• At the beginning of his life, Muslims

• Byzantine Empire

• Berbers

• Northern African Tribes

Failures

By Luke, Rafi, and Logan

• Failed to keep the Sunni and the Shi'a together

• Failed to conquer Anatolian Peninsula (Constantinople)

What did he achieve?

• Founded the Umayyad Dynasty of Caliphs

• Became the Governor of Syria

• Created secular Muslim culture

• Was the first in the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs

Ideology

• Divine Right - the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God

• Dynastic Rule - to be ruled by a dynasty

• Islamic Rule

Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan

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