Sulayman himself had died the previous year and his successor Umar II would not attempt another siege.

However, the Umayyad caliph Umar II later forbade non-Muslims from entering mosques, and his ruling remains in practice in present day Saudi Arabia.

In 718, the Umayyad caliph Umar II strictly forbade collection of jizya from Muslim converts.

* Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz is succeeded by Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik.

Al Khamis Mosque, founded in 692, was one of the earliest mosques built in Bahrain, in the era of Umayyad caliph Umar II.

Muhammad ibn ' Ali, a great-grandson of Abbas, began to campaign for the return of power to the family of Muhammad, the Hashimites, in Persia during the reign of Umar II.

* Pact of Umar II

* Omar, or Umar II, Ummayad caliph

Restorations and reconstruction of the buildings and fortifications was begun by Caliph Umar II, who also ransomed the inhabitants from the Byzantines.

These included Abd al-Malik, Al-Walid I, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Umar II, Yazid II, and Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

Things improved, if only financially, for Alexander and the Copts under Umar II, but the accession of Yazid II after him made things even worse than they had been under Al-Walid.

– Umar II

Muhammad Ali was apprehensive to deviate from the longstanding Muslim tradition and the Pact of Umar II, which restricted the repair or construction of non-Muslim houses of worship.

He was born on 14 Feb 1483 in present day Uzbekistan, the eldest son of Amir Umar Shaykh Mirza, the son of Abū Saʿīd Mirza ( and grandson of Miran Shah, who was himself son of Timur ) and his wife Qutlugh Nigar Khanum, daughter of Younus Khan, the ruler of Moghulistan ( and great-great grandson of Abhavh Timur, the son of Esen Buqa II, who was the great-great-great grandson of Chaghatai Khan, the second born son of Genghis Khan ).

According to the medieval Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Yazid came to power on the death of Umar II on February 10, 720.

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He was a prototype of Umar II, and strove to establish the Islamic way of life.

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He was, however, more successful with Umar II, and was the only poet received by the pious caliph.

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* Umar II bin Muhammad

* Abu Hafs Umar II ( 1346 – 1349 )

After the pressure exerted by Umar — Khalid's cousin and one of Caliph Abu Bakr's main advisors — Abu Bakr called Khalid back to Madina to explain himself.

As for those who reject the historic occurrence of the marriage, or are of the opinion that it took place under pressure which ‘ Umar brought to bear upon ‘ Ali use this issue to justify the unrighteousness and viciousness of ‘ Umar, and that ‘ Ali did not approve of him.

After the pressure exerted by Umar — Khalid's cousin and one of Caliph Abu Bakr's main advisors — Abu Bakr called Khalid back to Madina to explain himself.

After the pressure exerted by Umar — Khalid's cousin and one of Caliph Abu Bakr's main advisors — Abu Bakr called Khalid back to Madina to explain himself.

In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin-soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin ( Almoravids )-set out on campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.

Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.

Finally, around 1396 the Bulala invaders forced Mai Umar Idrismi to abandon Njimi and move the Kanembu people to Bornu on the western edge of Lake Chad.

* M. Levy-Rubin: Shurut ` Umar and its alternatives: the legal debate on the status of the dhimmis.

Finally, around 1380 the Bulala forced Mai Umar Idrismi to abandon Njimi and move the Kanembu people to Bornu on the western edge of Lake Chad.

Umar Tall's mujahideen readily defeated the Bambara, seizing Ségou itself on March 10, 1861 and declaring an end to the empire.

* The city of Basra, Iraq, is founded on a canal by Caliph Umar.

Michael III took an active part in the wars against the Abbasids and their vassals on the eastern frontier in 856 – 863, especially in 857 when he sent an army of 50, 000 men against Umar al-Aqta, Emir of Melitene.

Umar, on his death bed formed a committee of six people to choose the next Caliph from amongst themselves.

Umar asked that, after his death, the committee reach a final decision within three days, and the next Caliph should take the oath of office on the fourth day.

Umar had fixed the allowance of the people and on assuming office, Uthman increased it by about 25 %.

Umar had placed a ban on the sale of lands and the purchase of agricultural lands in conquered territories.

It was Umar, according to Jewish tradition, who set aside the Christian ban on Jews and allowed Jews into Jerusalem and to worship.

Hearing this from Abu Bakr, the most senior disciple of Muhammad, Umar then fell down on his knees in great sense of sorrow and acceptance of the reality.

While the funeral of Muhammad was being arranged a group of Muhammad's followers who were natives of Medina, the Ansar ( helpers ), organised a meeting on the outskirts of the city, effectively locking out those companions known as Muhajirs ( The Emigrants ) including Umar.

Though they Khazraj were in disagreement, Umar after strained negotiations lasting up to one or two days, brilliantly divided the Ansar into their old warring factions of Aws and Khazraj tribes, Umar resolved the divisions by placing his hand on that of Abu Bakr as a unity candidate for those gathered in the Saqifah, most others gathered at the Saqifah followed suit with the exception of the Khazraj tribe and their leader, Sa'd ibn ' Ubada, whose tribe was ostracized.

This mountain is identified by tradition with a hill near the town of Jazirat ibn Umar on the east bank of the Tigris in the province of Mosul in northern Iraq, and Masudi says that the spot could be seen in his time.

This was accepted to refer directly to interest on loans so that, according to Islamic economists Choudhury and Malik ( 1992 ), by the time of Caliph Umar, the prohibition of interest was a well-established working principle integrated into the Islamic economic system.

In January 2008, Zakayev's name showed up on the purported hit list of Ramzan Kadyrov's enemies abroad to be killed, which was published on the Internet following the murder of the Chechen dissident Umar Israilov ( a former bodyguard of Kadyrov who was shot dead after receiving asylum in Austria ).

* Umar ibn Al-Khattāb ( TV series ), a 2012 historical television series on MBC

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan, and Abiodun Oyewole, along with percussionist Nilaja Obabi, are generally considered the primary and core members of the group, as it appeared on the group's 1970 self-titled debut and, in various combinations, on subsequent releases.