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ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الملك; in Greek sources Ἀβδελᾶς, Abdelas) was an Umayyad prince, the son of Caliph Abd al-Malik...

735 to 736. A Qays Arab, Abd al-Rahman originally served as chief of police (sahib al-shurta) for al-Walid ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi before himself succeeding...

Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As (Arabic: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ٱبْن عَمْرِو ٱبْن الْعَاصِ, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ; died 684 CE) was the son of...

Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (Arabic: عَبْدِ الْعَزِيز بْنِ مَرْوَان بْنِ الْحَكَم, romanized: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam; died 12 May...

Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِل السَّهْمِي, romanized: ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was...

Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi (Arabic: عبد الملك بن رفاعة) was the governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate in 715–717 and 727. Abd al-Malik was...

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الملك بن مروان, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; died 750) was an Umayyad prince...

the Banu Fahm, al-Walid initially appears as a chief of security (sahib al-shurtah) for his brother Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'ah al-Fahmi during the latter's...

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn Musa ibn Nusayr (Arabic: عبد الملك بن مروان بن موسى بن نصير) was the last governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate. Abd...

Handhala ibn Safwan as governor of Egypt in 737, replacing Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid al-Fahmi. In October, 741, in the course of the Great Berber Revolt...

Ḥawthara ibn Suhayl al-Bāhilī (Arabic: حوثرة بن سهيل) (died 750) was a Bedouin Arab administrator and military leader in the final years of the Umayyad...

ibn al-Hakam (r. 684–685). His father, Yusuf, had served as a governor of Mosul during the reign of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (r. 685–705). One of al-Hurr's...

Abd al-Rahman ibn Utba al-Fihri, also known as Ibn Jahdam[citation needed], was the governor of Egypt for the rival caliph Ibn al-Zubayr in 684, during...

the Quran fell into oblivion after the Umayyad governor of Egypt, Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan, had another codex produced in accordance with the Uthmanid...

Maslama ibn Mukhallad ibn Samit al-Ansari (Arabic: مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ بْنِ صَّامِت الأَنْصَاريِّ, romanized: Maslama ibn Mukhallad ibn Ṣāmit al-Anṣārī)...

was appointed governor of Egypt by the caliph Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik as a replacement for Ayyub ibn Sharhabil. During his time in that province, he cancelled...

served as sahib al-shurta (chief of police) prior to his rise to the governorship. With the death of Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 743, the Umayyad...

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 92–93. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 92–93; Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, pp. 314–15. Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin...

during the last years of Caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). He later became the katib (secretary or scribe) of Caliph al-Walid I (r. 705–715). His administrative...

Utba ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb (Arabic: عتبة بن أبي سفيان بن حرب, romanized: ʿUtba ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb) was a member of the Umayyad ruling family and...