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Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 691 – 6 February 743 ) () 10th Umayyad caliph who ruled from 723 until his death in 743.
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Abd al-Rahman I, or, his full name by patronymic record, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu ' awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( 731 – 788 ) ( Arabic: عبد الرحمن الداخل ) was the founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba ( 755 ), a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries ( including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba ).
Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.
The tenth Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, built a palatial complex known as Khirbet al-Mafjar about one mile north of Tell as-Sultan in 743, and two mosques, a courtyard, mosaics, and other items from it can still be seen in situ today, despite its having been partially destroyed in an earthquake in 747.
Leo secured the Empire's frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency ; when the Umayyad Caliphate renewed their invasions in 726 and 739, as part of the campaigns of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the Arab forces were decisively beaten, particularly at Akroinon in 740.
* After a forty-year vacancy, Stephen becomes Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at the suggestion of Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
* Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 724 – 743 ) is succeeded by al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik ( 743 – 744 ).
Rebellion of Marwan II against Yazid's designated successor Ibrahim, defeat of the loyalist forces under Sulayman ibn Hisham and accession of Marwan in December.
* Umayyad caliph Yazid II ibn Abd al-Malik ( 720 – 724 ) is succeeded by Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( 724 – 743 ).
* Umayyad troops under Abdallah al-Battal and Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham raze Gangra and unsuccessfully besiege Nicaea.
Although the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik had adopted Persian court practices, it was not until al-Mansur's reign that Persian literature and scholarship were truly appreciated in the Islamic world.
Al-Bulqini added some names to the aforementioned: Ali ibn al-Madini and ' Amr ibn ' Ali al-Fallas, and then mentioned Malik ibn Anas and Hisham ibn Urwah as having preceded them in evaluating narrators.
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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.
Abd al-Rahman was the son of Mu ' awiyah, son of Hisham, son of Abd al-Malik according to Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi when reciting his ancestry.
In 730 ( 112 AH ) the Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Abdul Rahman as emir ( governor / commander ) of Al Andalus.
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Constantine was crossing Asia Minor to campaign against the Umayyad Caliphate under Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik on the eastern frontier in June 741 or 742.
This unrest led to revolt during the reign of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in Kufa, a prominent city in southern Iraq.
With the death of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 743, the Islamic world was launched into civil war.
These included Abd al-Malik, Al-Walid I, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Umar II, Yazid II, and Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
Historians of both Shi ' is and Sunnis recorded that when Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik became the caliph, he committed many atrocities.
Muhammad al-Baqir was poisoned by the order of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik on 7 Dhu al-Hijjah 114 at the age of 57 years.
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Hisham III () was the last Umayyad ruler in the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ) ( 1026 – 1031 ), and the last person to hold the title Caliph of Cordoba.
Finally the Slavic troops of the Caliphate under al-Wahdid restored Hisham II as Caliph ( 1010 – 1013 ).
What happened to Hisham after that is uncertain – supposedly he was killed on 19 April 1013 by the Berbers.
** Muhammad II – great-grandson of Abd al-Rahman III – deposes Hisham II as Caliph and destroys Al-Mansur's palace complex of al-Madinat al-Zahira near Córdoba.
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