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The Umayyads were the first Muslim dynasty and ruled from 661 to 750 CE.
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As soon as he secured the victories in Andalusia, the Arab elite of Damascus dispatched rulers to seize power on behalf of the pure Arab dynasty of the Umayyads, known for their disdain of other ethnicities, particularly those from Africa, even if they were Muslim.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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What brought us to the desert was the same thing that attracted the Umayyads (and before them the Romans, the Nabateans, and neolithic people): an oasis, the desert's only water source.
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A trickle of travellers make it out here – 100km from Amman and well off the tourist trail between Petra, Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea – to see several desert castles, built in the seventh and eighth centuries by the Umayyads, one of those empires no one remembers, although they were once the biggest in the world, governing five million square miles that stretched from Spain to present-day Pakistan.
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For centuries, completely isolated from the outside world, our people struggled to maintain its identity in its mountainous homeland while Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans ruled the entire region along with their vassals.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Previously, the country had been ruled by dynasties and governors either answering to the Caliphate or seeking to become one—the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Mameluks, and Ottomans, with the brief interlude of reformer Mohammed Ali in the early nineteenth century.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Tariq led the Caliphate armies across Iberia, giving first the Umayyads, then the Abbasids what no leader of the Islamic empire ever imagined: a piece of Christian Europe.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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The Abbasids eliminated the Umayyads in 750 C.E. and moved the capital of the empire to Baghdad, leaving Syria as a province, albeit a powerful one, of the Caliphate.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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The “Damascus, capital of the Umayyads,” propaganda was used by the ruling elites, both Sunnis and then Alawis, as a catalyst for passionate nationalistic sentiments, a stark reminder of European extremist nationalism leading to World War I.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Ironically, though Jazeera was the birthplace of the Caliphate, within a few short years, the first dynasty of Arab caliphs, the Umayyads, moved the capital to Damascus, in 667, and the Abbassid dynasty moved it to Baghdad in 750.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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