Omayyad

Examples

• In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So the grievances of Ali were avenged at last, and the Omayyad line passed out of history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From this point onward the glory of the Omayyad line decays. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 749 they accomplished a carefully prepared revolution, and the last of the Omayyad Caliphs was hunted down and slain in Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a time, after the death of Ali, the Omayyad family was in the ascendant, and for nearly a century they gave rulers to Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For there had been a sort of truce between these two great religions after the cessation of the Moslem advance and the decline of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His claims formed an undertow to the resentment of Medina and of the rival families of Mecca against the advancement of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was, it is interesting to note, a rising on behalf of the Omayyads in Khorasan which was assisted by the Chinese emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The feud of the Omayyads and the Abbasids was older than Islam; it had been going on before Muhammad was born. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After the overthrow of the Omayyads by the Abbasid dynasty, the strength of the Saracenic impulse against Europe diminished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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