Abd ar-Rahman's sisters were unable to make the long voyage to al-Andalus.

The gate lifted and Abd ar-Rahman's men fell upon the unsuspecting Abbasids, thoroughly routing them.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

She made sure that Abd ar-Rahman's education was conducted with some rigorousness.

Abd ar-Rahman's next objective was to squash the longstanding rebellion of Ibn Hafsun.

The Umayyad army then moved to Bobastro, while the cavalry was sent to the castle of Sant Batir, which was abandoned by the defenders, allowing Abd ar-Rahman's troops to secure a large booty.

In much of the eastern and western province, Abd ar-Rahman's authority was completely unrecognized.

After crushing all opposition, Kamil appointed Salama Amr, the brother and strong rival of Abd al Rachman, as nazir of the Hebron region.

` Abd al-Malik then appointed one of his most able generals and administrators who would later change the face of the Umayyad Empire, al-Hajjaj bin Yousef to march against ` Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the governor of Hejaz.

Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim was overthrown in the Ramadan ( 8 February ) Revolution ; al-Bakr was appointed Prime Minister, and later, Vice President of Iraq in a ba ' ath-nasserist coalition government.

In recognition of his efforts to resolve the Moroccan Crisis leading up to the international conference, Abd al-Aziz appointed al-Muqri as his Minister of Finance and in 1908, his Grand Vizier, a post he would hold on and off under each of the succeeding sultans until 1955.

He was appointed prime minister by the regent, ' Abd al-Ilah, following the first ouster of the pro-Axis government of Rashid Ali al-Kaylani during World War II.

In 730 ( 112 AH ) the Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Abdul Rahman as emir ( governor / commander ) of Al Andalus.

Instead, he appointed his brother Herakleios as monostrategos of the East, who firstly strengthened the land and sea defences of Anatolia before proceeding to attack the Umayyad Caliphate under Abd al-Malik, winning minor victories while raiding into northern Syria in 700 and 701.

Abd el-Krim entered the Spanish governmental structure, and was appointed chief qadi ( Muslim judge ) for Melilla in 1914.

After the Ba ' ath Party gained power following the 1963 coup, the new interior minister Amin al-Hafiz appointed Abd al-Rahman al-Khlayfawi as governor of Daraa until 1965.

During ' Abd al-Rahman's term of power, the scholar Moses ben Enoch was appointed rabbi of Córdoba, and as a consequence al-Andalus became the center of Talmudic study, and Córdoba the meeting-place of Jewish savants.

He appointed Yazid ibn al-Muhallab governor of Mesopotamia ( Iraq ) and Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman financial administrator there.

So, he passed these over, broke with tradition by not maintaining a hereditary dynasty and appointed Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz as his successor.

President Abd al-Salam Arif, from 1963 to 1966, appointed Al-Bazzaz to several government positions.

During his tenure, Atassi appointed the statesman Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, one of the leaders of the Syrian nationalist movement against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, as Foreign Minister.

In 1948 Abd al-Hadi was a member and appointed Minister for Social Affairs of the Egyptian-sponsored All-Palestine Government headed by Amin al-Husayni.

Abd al-Rahman was appointed as the arbitrator to choose between the remaining two candidates.

Sheikh Uthman Abd al-Aziz was appointed as a mufti ( religious judge ) by the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.

By 1994 ” Abd El Hamid Shaheen ” was not able to continue his duties due to his sickness, but the board chose to keep him in the position in honor of his devotion to the club, and thus Farouk Abo El Nasr was appointed to take the duties while keeping ” Abd El Hamid Shaheen ” in the position.

When Abd al-Malik became Sultan, he asked Henry III of France that Guillaume Bérard be appointed Consul of France in Morocco.

His father soon appointed him as heir apparent ( full original title Gusti Adi ' Abd al-Majid, Pangeran Ratu Adipati Kusuma Negara ).

In 664, Muawiyah and Ziyad reached an agreement: the Caliph recognised Ziyad as a brother-Ziyad now adopted the name ibn Abi Sufyan-and appointed him governor at Basra, replacing the Umayyad ` Abd Allah, who had proved a great general but a poor administrator.

Wahshy had been appointed by Hind bint Utbah to kill one of the three persons ( Muhammad, Ali ibn Abi Talib, or Hamza ibn ‘ Abd al-Muttalib ) so that she might avenge her father's death during the Battle of Badr.

They then appointed Mansur's younger brother ' Abd al-Malik II as amir.

Qasr Al Abd was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 BC

At the time, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri was the semi-autonomous governor of Ifriqiya ( roughly, modern Tunisia ) and a former Umayyad client.

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim enjoyed his office for only a single day, for Abd ar-Rahman soon discovered his collusion with the rebel governor of Carmona.

* The former governor of Iraq, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, rebels and is defeated and killed by the Caliph's forces under Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid and Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik.

Ulugh Beg retreated to Balkh, where he found that its governor, his oldest son ' Abd al-Latif, had rebelled against him.

The treaties reached earlier with the local population stood firm and were further consolidated in 734 when the governor of Narbonne, Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, concluded agreements with several towns on common defense arrangements against the encroachments of Charles Martel, who had systematically brought the south to heel as he extended his domains.

In 707, a Muslim fleet, under the command of Abd Allgaht ibn Musa, son of the governor of Ifriqiya, Musa ibn Nusayr, stopped at the island.

Hajjaj's success led Abd al-Malik to assign him the role of governor of Iraq and give him free rein in the territories he controlled.

In737 the Frankish leader went on to attack Narbonne, but the city held firm, defended by its Goths and Jews under the command of its governor Yusuf, ' Abd er-Rahman's heir.

The governor, Abd al-Malik agreed, which allowed the selection of a patriarch to take top priority.

Subsequently, during the reign of Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik ( Al-Walid I, r. 705-715 ), the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi ( Mosque of the Prophet ) was renovated and the governor ( wāli ) of Medina, Umar ibn AbdulAziz, ordered that a niche be made to designate the qibla wall ( which identifies the direction of Mecca ), and it was in this niche that Uthman's sign was placed.

That same year Yazid's governor in Medina, Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Dahhak, incurred the caliph's displeasure because the governor was exerting undue pressure trying to force a woman to marry him.

In Spain, the internal conflicts of the years past were ended, and Hisham's governor, Abd ar Rahman ibn Abdallah, assembled a large army that went into France.

As a slave, Musa's father entered the service of Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan ( governor of Egypt and son of the caliph Marwan I ) who gave him his freedom.

His father's patron, Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan, had a high opinion of Musa, and paid the ransom ; he was later responsible for appointing Musa to be governor of Ifriqiya.

Another son, Abd Allah, who had acted as governor of Ifriqiya after Musa, was executed on the orders of the caliph on suspicion of having had killed the man who had replaced him.

When the exiled Umayyad prince Abd ar-Rahman I escaped to Spain and defeated the Andalusian governor Yusuf al-Fihri, he allowed the Christians to rebuild their ruined churches, and purchased the Christian half of the church of St. Vincent.

* Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan ( died 715 ), Umayyad prince and governor of Egypt

* Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ( died 716 ), governor of Al-Andalus