Umayyadn.adj.

1758 tr. F. A. de Marigny Hist. Arabians II. 331 The descendants of Abbas had always refused to acknowledge the Ommiyans as lawful Caliphs.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 431 The bloody conflict of the Ommiades and Abbassides.

1907 D. S. Margoliouth tr. J. Zaydan Umayyads & ʿAbbásids ii. 63 The pivot on which the policy of the Umayyads turned..was the recovery of the sovereignty which they had enjoyed in pagan days.

1924 W. Muir Caliphate (ed. 2) lx. 433 Of the Umeiyads, the Syrians remained the last support.

1950 B. Lewis Arabs in Hist. iv. 78 The last of the Umayyads, Marwān II.., was a clever and capable ruler, but he had come too late to save the dynasty.

1975 F. Heer Charlemagne & his World viii. 106 In 750 the Ommayyad dynasty was overthrown by the Abbassids, descendants of Mohammed's uncle... One Ommayyad..escaped the massacre of his dynasty in Baghdad..and made his way to Spain, where he became emir.

1758 tr. F. A. de Marigny Hist. Arabians III. 5 Abdollah..vented his rage on the tombs of the Ommiyan Caliphs.

1872 H. A. Rawes God in His Works iii. 54 The Ommiad Caliphate of Damascus and the Abbasside Caliphate of Bagdad began and ended. When the thirty-seven Abbasides began to reign, Zacharias was in the Chair of Peter.

1907 D. S. Margoliouth tr. J. Zaydan Umayyads & ʿAbbásids ii. 63 The Umayyad desire for exclusive sovereignty..led them to commit many acts which blacken their memories.

1924 W. Muir Caliphate (ed. 2) lx. 432 In passing from the Umeiyad to the ῾Abbāsid Caliphate, we reach..a fresh departure... The first new feature is, that while the Umeiyad Caliphate..was co-ordinate with the limits of Islām, this is no longer true of the ῾Abbāsid.

1927 D. Hogarth in Lett. Gertrude Bell I. xiii. 353 Her journey was a pioneer venture which..cast much new light on the history of the Syrian desert frontiers under Roman, Palmyrene, and Ummayad domination.

1950 B. Lewis Arabs in Hist. iv. 68 Umayyad society was based on the domination of the Arabs.

1981 Economist 24 Jan. 43/1 It is taken for granted that present day Damascus and Baghdad automatically oppose each other because of the hostility between the Ummayad and Abbasid dynasties 1,200 years ago.