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Mu'awiya I (Arabic: معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; c. 597, 603 or 605 –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death.
Muʿāwiyah I (born c. 602, Mecca, Arabia—died April/May 680, Damascus) was an early Islamic leader and founder of the great Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. He fought against the fourth caliph, ʿAlī (Muhammad’s son-in-law), seized Egypt, and assumed the caliphate after ʿAlī’s assassination.
Emir Muawiya was the first soldier-king in Islamic history. With him, the Islamic body politic came under the sway of dynastic rule. The pattern established by him persisted until the 18 th century when the merchants of Europe supplanted the Muslim soldier-kings of Asia and Africa.
The founder of the Umayyad Caliphate, Mu'awiya I, had originally been governor of the junds (military districts) of Damascus (Dimashq) and Jordan (al-Urdunn) in 639 before gaining authority over the rest of Syria's junds during the caliphate of Uthman (644–656), a member of the Umayyad family.
Mu'awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan Muawiyah I (معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; 602 – 26 April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad caliphate, and was the second caliph from the Umayyad clan, the first being Uthman ibn Affan.
Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; c. 597, 603 or 605–April 680), commonly known as Mu'awiya I, was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Muawiyah I (معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; 602 – 26 April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad caliphate, and was the second caliph from the Umayyad clan, the first being Uthman ibn Affan. In 657, Muawiya's army attacked the army of Ali ibn Abi Talib at the Battle of Siffin.
Muʿāwiyah I, (born c. 602, Mecca, Arabian Peninsula—died April/May 680, Damascus, Syria), First caliph (661–680) of the Umayyad dynasty. Born into a clan that initially rejected Muhammad ’s preaching, he accepted Islam only after Muhammad had conquered Mecca.
Muʿāwiyah I - Caliph, Expansion, Reforms: Muʿāwiyah stands out as one of the few caliphs who is depicted both in Muslim historiography and in modern scholarship as a decisive force in Islamic history.
The Umayyad Caliphate was born from the ruins of the Rashidun Caliphate. Learn about Mu’awiya's rule in the history of Islam.
