Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān, better known as Abū al-ʿUmayṭir al-Sufyānī, was an Umayyad rebel against...

(Arabic: زياد بن عبد الله بن يزيد بن معاوية), commonly known as Abū Muḥammad al-Sufyānī (Arabic: أبو محمد السفياني) was an Umayyad prince and a pretender...

claimants to the caliphate in Damascus, those of Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani and Maslama ibn Ya'qub. In effect, al-Faddayni's rebellion was the last major attempt...

dynasts, an Umayyad, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, took power in Syria in 811, in a bid to reestablish the Umayyad Caliphate. Abu Mushir, whose grandfather...

the Kalb tribe. A descendant of the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, was proclaimed caliph in Damascus in 811 and gained recognition...

restore their old regime during the Fourth Fitna. Two Umayyads, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani and Maslama ibn Ya'qub, successively seized control of Damascus...

Umayyad claimants to the caliphate, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, Maslama ibn Ya'qub al-Marwani and Sa'id ibn Khalid al-Uthmani, were defeated, marking an...

of Damascus during the Great Abbasid Civil War, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani and Maslama ibn Ya'qub al-Marwani, used the Khadra Palace as their seat of...

the chief backers of another Umayyad claimant to the caliphate, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, who took power in Damascus in 811, amid the Great Abbasid Civil...

750, and their sympathizers, led by Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, attacked Sulayman's in his residence, the palace of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. In the run up to...