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Yazid's mother, Maysun, was the daughter of Bahdal ibn Unayf, a chieftain of the powerful Bedouin tribe of Banu Kalb. She was a Christian , like most of her tribe. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Yazid grew up with his maternal Kalbite kin, [ 6 ] spending the springs of his youth in the Syrian Desert ; for the remainder of the year he was in the company of the ...
Maysun was the mother of Mu'awiya's son and nominated successor, Yazid I. She took a considerable interest in educating her son and took him to the desert encampments of the Kalb where Yazid spent part of his youth. She most likely died before Yazid's accession in 680. [7] In the assessment of the historian Nabia Abbott,
Fakhitah was the mother of Yazid's younger son Khalid. Her husband came to the throne in 680. Her husband ruled the Caliphate 680 to 683. Her husband Yazid I, had made the 'bay'ah' to his son Mu'awiya. Mu'awiya II succeeded his father in Damascus in 64 AH (November 683 CE), at an age of somewhere between 17 and 23. Mu'awiya was the son of ...
Some western scholars derive the name from the Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah (Yazid I). [50] However, all Yazidis reject any relationship between their name and the caliph. [51] The word Yazidi means 'the servant of the creator'. [52] Although Yazidism was not named after Yazid ibn Muawiyah, the caliph was revered in Yazidism.
Carol Kane’s new movie doubles as an homage to her inspiring mother.. Writer-director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples (in theaters now) stars Jason Schwartzman as a grieving cantor who ...
Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, romanized: Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was a leading Arab Muslim commander in the conquest of Syria from 634 until his death in the plague of Amwas in 639. Following the capture of Damascus around 635, he was ...
After nearby Medina, the other holy city of Islam, also rebelled against Yazid, the Umayyad ruler sent an army to subdue Arabia. The Umayyad army defeated the Medinans and took the city, but Mecca held out in a month-long siege, during which the Kaaba was damaged by fire. [1] The siege ended when news came of Yazid's sudden death.
Lopez, as a military sniper turned broker of underground arms deals turned FBI informant turned savagely cool-headed protector of her 12-year-old daughter, is playing a badass not so far removed ...