How to Use "Umayyad" with Example Sentences
- 1. 3 P.m. - we 're back in the old city and the umayyad mosque is a must .
- 2. Stretch your legs at al-nofara cafe , next to the umayyad mosque , which is popular with tourists and damascenes alike .
- 3. The later umayyad caliphs were relatively more corrupt and cared less about such religious issues .
- 4. Most umayyad rulers insisted on arab primacy over non-arab converts to islam , while the abbasid caliphs accepted the principle of arab and non-arab equality as muslims .
- 5. Thus the arab umayyad dynasty of caliphs , which had moved the capital from medline to damascus in 661 , came to be regarded with much justification as a parasitic clique that had outlived its usefulness once the conquests were completed .