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Umar ibn al-Walid

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376:) economic policies, which reversed al-Walid's liberal distribution of war spoils among members of the ruling family, Umar wrote a letter to the caliph; in it he accuses the caliph of abandoning his predecessor's policies, accusing them of oppression, and detesting their descendants, to which the caliph responded by alleging the Umayyads abandoned the correct path by misusing public funds, illicitly shedding blood and ruling tyrannically. Umar is recorded by the sources as being in a lawsuit in 738/39 with the future 441:
in modern Jordan, about 60 kilometers east of Amman. The inscriptions attest to visits by the prince at the beginning of the 8th century. The names of his sons Abd al-Malik and Abd Allah are each mentioned at least once in the inscriptions as well. The palace likely served as a resting place between
506:. His descendants were an influential family known as the Habibi clan. Umar's sons Isa and Hafs also relocated to al-Andalus. Descendants of Abd al-Malik and Isa are named by the sources as members of the Umayyad elite in al-Andalus up to the late 10th century. 450:
Umar was dubbed "the stallion of the Banu Marwan (the Marwanids)" or "the stud of the Banu Umayya (the Umayyads)" for his numerous marriages and his fathering of some sixty sons. Among his wives was Umm Abd Allah bint Habib, a granddaughter of
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Abd al-Malik's son Habib escaped the massacre of the Umayyad family at Nahr Abi Futrus in the aftermath of the
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Representing the interests of Marwanid (Umayyad ruling house) princes who were negatively affected by Caliph
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in November 707. In 710/11, Umar led an expedition against
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Index

Governor
Jund al-Urdunn
Amir al-hajj
al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As
Dynasty
Umayyad
(Marwanid)
Al-Walid I
Islam
Umayyad Caliphate
Arab–Byzantine wars
Sulayman
Yazid II
Hisham
Maslama
Arabic
Umayyad
Arab–Byzantine wars
Jund al-Urdunn
al-Walid I
Umayyad desert palaces
Khirbat al-Minya
Qasr Kharana
Umayyad
al-Walid I
slave concubines
Jund al-Urdunn
Hajj
Mecca
Byzantine

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