Abd al-Rahman's establishment of a government in al-Andalus represented a branching from the rest of the Islamic Empire, which had been brought under the Abbasid following the overthrow of the Umayyads from Damascus in 750.

He was twenty when his family, the ruling Umayyads, were overthrown by a popular revolt known as the Abbasid Revolution, occurring in the year 750.

In the Abbasid period ( after 750 AD ) Arab Muslims began to be interested in Greek scientific and medical texts for the first time, and had some of Galen's texts translated into Arabic, often by Syrian Christian scholars ( see below ).

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Umayyad rule ended in 750 and was followed by the Arab caliphates of the Abbasid and Fatimid dynasties.

In 750, it came under Abbasid dominion, losing prominence owing to the move of the Abbasid capital to Baghdad.

* 750: The last Umayyad Caliph Marwan II ( 744 – 750 ) is overthrown and executed by the first Abbasid Caliph, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah.

The medical works of both Sushruta and Charak originally in Sanskrit were translated into Arabic language during the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 AD.

The Abbasid caliphate was founded by the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ( 566-653 ), in Kufa in 750 CE and shifted its capital in 762 to Baghdad.

Abu Muslim was a loyal freed man from the eastern Iranian province of Khorasan who had led the Abbasid forces to victory over the Umayyads during the Third Fitna in 749 – 750.

The inclusiveness of the Abbasid regime, and that of al-Mansur, saw the expansion of Islam among its territory ; in 750, roughly 8 % of residents in the Caliphate were Muslims.

The Abbasid dynasty ( 750 A. D .< nowiki >-</ nowiki > 1258 ) witnessed the movement of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad, and then from Baghdad to Samarra.

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The Abbasid dynasty ( 750 A. D .< nowiki >-</ nowiki > 1258 ) witnessed the movement of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad, and then from Baghdad to Samarra.

The Abbasids began a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate, beginning in 747, in Merv, Khurasan, and resulting in the proclamation of a new Abbasid Caliph in about 750.

Abu al -` Abbās ` Abdu ' llāh ibn Muhammad as-Saffāh, or Abul ` Abbas al-Saffah ( أبو العباس عبد الله بن محمد السفاح, As-Saffah السف ّ اح, literally means The person who over give money and is generous ( see reference )), ( 721 / 722 – 9 June 754 ) was the first Abbasid caliph ( 750 – 754 ).

According to Arab sources in the year 750, Abu al -' Abbas al-Saffah ( Al-Saffah ), the founder of the Abbasid Caliphate, launched a massive rebellion against the discriminatory Umayyad Caliphate from the province of Khurasan near Talas.

In 750, Abu Muslim became leader of the Abbasid army and defeated the Umayyads at Battle of the Zab.

Under the early centuries of Muslim rule, especially during the Umayyad ( 650 – 750 ) and Abbasid ( 750 – 969 ) dynasties, the city prospered ; geographers Ibn Hawqal and al-Istakhri ( 10th century ) describe it as " the most fertile province of Palestine ", while its native son, the geographer al-Muqaddasi ( born 946 ) devoted many pages to its praises in his most famous work, The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Climes.

In 750, the Abbasid dynasty replaced the Umayyad as the ruling dynasty of the Islamic empire, and in 762, the caliph al-Mansur ( reigned 754 – 775 ) built Baghdad and made it his capital ( the previous capital having been Damascus ).

There were other rebellions during these last years of the Umayyad, before the Abbasids succeeded in grasping the caliphate and establishing the Abbasid dynasty in 750 CE, when Ja ' far Al-Sadiq was 48 years old.

The Chalukya dynasty ruled parts of southern and central India from Badami in Karnataka between 550 and 750, and then again from Kalyani between 970 and 1190.

In the early 7th century, the area of modern Jordan became integrated into the new Arab-Islamic Umayyad Empire ( the first Muslim dynasty ), which ruled much of the Middle East from 661 until 750 CE.

Khalid Yahya Blankinship argued that the military defeat at Tours was one of the failures that contributed to the decline of the Umayyad caliphate: " Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad — armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 AD.

Syria would remain the base of Umayyad power until the end of the dynasty in 750 AD.

* Pala dynasty ( 750 – 1174 AD )

All of the jade items excavated from the tomb of Fuhao ( 妇好 ) of the Shang dynasty, more than 750 pieces, were from Khotan in modern Xinjiang.

The Umayyad dynasty ( 661 – 750 ) used white as their symbolic color as a reminder of Muhammad's first battle at Badr, and to distinguish themselves from the Abbasids, by using white, rather than black, as their color of mourning.

The clan acts as the parent clan to Banu Umayya sub-clan, the widely known Umayyad dynasty which ruled as the second Arab caliphate ( 661 – 750 ) established after Muhammad's death.

The Abbasid dynasty founded in 750 by Abu al -` Abbās ` Abdu ' llāh as-Saffāh claimed the title of caliph ( literally " successor to the prophet ") through their descent from Abbas's son Abdullah.

During the later Umayyad period ( 705 – 750 CE ), a growing class of Muslim legal scholars, distinct from the qadis, busied themselves with the task of supplying the needed body of law, and by the time of the accession to power of the Abbasid dynasty in 750 their work could be said to have been essentially completed.

The Buddhist dynasty lasted for four centuries ( 750 – 1120 CE ) and ushered in a period of stability and prosperity in Bengal.

Under the ' Abbāsid dynasty ( 750 – 1258 CE ), various Shī ‘ ī groups organised in secret opposition to their rule.

* Pala Empire ( 750 – 1174 ), Indian imperial power ruled by a Buddhist dynasty from Bengal

All of the jade items excavated from the tomb of Fuhao of the Shang dynasty, more than 750 pieces, were from Khotan in modern Xinjiang.

When the Umayyad Caliphs were deposed in Damascus in 750, the dynasty relocated to Córdoba, ruling an emirate there ; consequently the city gained in luxury and importance, as a center of Iberian Muslim culture.

The Buddhist dynasty lasted for four centuries ( 750 – 1120 AD ) and ushered in a period of stability and prosperity in Bengal.

Based on this line of succession, and an estimated 25 to 30-year average ruling period, the beginnings of the Macedonian dynasty have thus been traditionally dated to 750 BC.

Following the uprising that ended Umayyad rule in 750, the Abbasid dynasty came to power and moved the capital of the Caliphate to Baghdad.

The Rashtrakutas overthrew the Chalukya empire in 750.

After Prophet Muhammed's death in 632, Islam expanded beyond the Arabian Peninsula under the Rashidun Caliphate ( 632 – 661 ) and the Umayyad Caliphate ( 661 – 750 ).

The threat of invasion was diminished after the Umayyad defeat at Narbonne, and the unified Caliphate would collapse into civil war in 750 at the Battle of the Zab.

The Umayyad Caliphate, from 661 to 750, extends the Islamic Caliphate to most of North Africa and Iberian Peninsula and farther east from modern-day Iran.

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Abu al -` Abbas, supported by Shi ' as and the residents of Khurasan, led his forces to victory over the Umayyads and ultimately deposed the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II, in 750.

As a political domain, it successively constituted a province of the Umayyad Caliphate, initiated by the Caliph Al-Walid I ( 711 – 750 ); the Emirate of Córdoba ( c. 750 – 929 ); the Caliphate of Córdoba ( 929 – 1031 ); and the Caliphate of Córdoba's taifa ( successor ) kingdoms.