The Hashimiyya movement ultimately supported:

The Umayyads’ center of power was always:

The Byzantines successfully used this northern population against Umayyad armies during the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople between 717-718.

The Arba’in pilgrimage involves a walk from Najaf to Karbala in Iraq. In Karbala, pilgrims revere:

Toward the end of the episode, we learned that one of the urban pastimes of Umayyad society was:

Where is the Umayyad Dome of the Rock?

The Abbasid caliphate is named after Abbas. He was:

Waleed II was briefly on the Umayyad throne from 743-744. At the end of this episode, we briefly discussed Qusayr ‘Amra, the caliph’s:

In 732, the Umayyad general Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi fought the Merovingian majordomo in what is today:

The Third Fitna, fought from 744-750, began with a conflict between:

True or False: The Umayyad caliphate, at its apex, was the largest empire in history up to that point.

The Second Fitna, a conflict between the Umayyads, Alids, Zubayrids, and Kharijites, was fought from:

The Umayyad caliphate’s leaders ruled from:

When the Umayyads disembarked in what is today Spain, they found this monarchical dynasty in a state of disarray:

The first Umayyad caliph, this monarch ruled from 661-680 and usurped the reign of Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali.

Muhammad’s grandson Husayn was killed by Umayyad forces in 680, near modern-day:

The Abbasid Revolution began in:

Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law Ali, along with Muhammad’s grandson Hasan, both signed capitulation agreements with:

An Umayyad governor famously described this region’s denizens as “people of dissension and hypocrisy and vile character.”

In 711, for the first time, Umayyad forces crossed: