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	Old Damascus [Oldamascus.com] :: The Omayyad Mosque
		Moreover, Omayyad Mosque takes a special position in the history of the mosque itself and represents the history of architecture, particularly the Islamic architectural techniques, due to its special distinction, hugeness and luxurious ornamentations, paintings and mosaic which decorate the walls of the mosque forming some great coordinated masterpieces.
		The Omayyad Mosque is considered as on of the most important architectural achievements during the early stages of the Islamic state.
		The Omayyad Caliph, Abdul Malek bin Marwan rebuilt the mosque.As he kept all the Roman relics of the temple, the church wasn't damaged.
	www.oldamascus.com /umayyad.htm (325 words)

	KacMac Syria Guide: History
		Damascus witnessed the rise of the Omayyads in 661 A.D., and subsequently became the capital of the Islamic Empire.
		The Omayyads reached the zenith of their glory in the reign of Al-Walid Ben Abdul-Malek during whose reign the Islamic Empire came to include Sind land, Turkey, and Spain.
		In 750 A.D. the Omayyad State was supplanted by that of the Abbasids.
	www.kacmac.com /syria/history (1367 words)

	Islam
		The symbolic crowns in the diagram are for the Prophet and the Caliphs (Khalifah, "successor").
		The high water mark of the Omayyad realm was certainly under 'Abd al-Malik and al-Walîd, as North Africa, Spain, Transoxania, and part of the Indus Valley fell to Islâm.
		Charlemagne pushed the Omayyads back from the Pyrenees and established the Marches there that grew into later kingdoms, but he was defeated at Roncesvalles in 778 and the heart of Spain was little effected.
	www.friesian.com /islam.htm (9016 words)

	Massoud Tours
		Damascus became the capital of the first Arab state at the time of the Omayyad in 660 A.D. this marked the beginning of its golden epoch, and for a whole century it was the center of the youthful Islamic Empire.
		This reached its peak of expansion during this period, and came to stretch from the shores of the Atlantic and the Pyrennese in the west, to the river Indus and China in the east.
		The Omayyad took a genuine interest in building up the city, organizing its souks and districts, improving its water supply and erecting palaces and hospitals in various parts of it.
	www.massoudtours.com /cities.htm (1498 words)

	History
		Each of the 14 Omayyad caliphs that ruled Damascus, made their own contribution to the city, either by building mosques and palaces, patronizing arts and sciences, or developing the administrative system.
		The Omayyad rulers were also responsible for the introduction of new styles of art and architecture which were mainly inspired by Islam.
		The Abbasids, a powerful Arab family that had settled in Iran and led the opposition against the Omayyad rule, swept from the east and occupied Damascus, killing the Omayyad Caliph and putting an end to the Omayyad Caliphate.
	www.damascus-online.com /damascus.htm (5366 words)

	Islam's First Muezzin, Bilal ibn Ribah, Bilal al-Habashi, Bilal the Ethiopian, Absolute Oneness
		But in the room where Omayyad and his friends were sitting the door burst open and a man rushed into the room, went directly to Omayyad and whispered something into his ear.
		Omayyad's friends were soon aware of the meaning of these words as his shouts continued into the night.
		Bilal's shout was as thunder as he moved away from the body of Omayyad and went to be at the side of the others to kill God's enemies with each stroke of his sword.
	www.ezsoftech.com /stories/companion4.asp (2085 words)

	4. History of Spreading
		From 661 onwards, the Muslims were ruled by a dynasty of Caliphs from the Omayyad family.
		The Omayyads moved the capital of their empire to Damascus because the Caliph was the governor of Syria.
		When the Omayyads were overthrown in 750, a group of people belonging to the Omayyad family escaped to Spain.
	library.thinkquest.org /28131/4historyi.htm (1217 words)

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		There were, inevitably, ¿Alid claimants who refused to accept the permanent exclusion of their family from the fruits of victory over the unrighteous Omayyads and from the imamate which they conceived as their own possession by a divine award.
		In Omayyad times, the extremist egalitarian Kharejite schismatics among the Arabs settled in Iraq and Persia had frequently broken out into rebellion against a state which they regarded as unrighteous.
		Whatever may have been the doctrinal connections between Kharejism of the Omayyad period and its post-750 manifestations, Kharejite activity in the eastern Persian countryside continued to present a periodic problem for the ¿Abbasid caliphs.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v1f1/v1f1a052.html (4028 words)

	Cities of Syria
		The year 661 A.D marked the beginning of the golden epoch for Dimashq (Damascus), when it became the capital of the Omayyad state and for a whole century it was the center of the youthful Islamic empire, stretching from the borders of china to the south of France.
		Following the fall of the Omayyads, the city went through periods of deterioration and prosperity in the Abbassids, the Fatemite, the Ayoubite, the Mamluk and the ottoman periods and during the French mandate.
		It was built by the caliph Hisham Ibn Abdoul Malik in 782 A.D it contains a palace residence for the caliph and for the garrisons.
	www.megatours.net /cities.htm (4547 words)

	El legado andalusí - Cultural Itinerary of the Omayyads
		Under the government of the Omayyads Islam achieved not only the territorial expansion of an authentic empire, comparable to any which has formerly existed, but managed to accompany this expansion with an open cosmopolitan society, open to the cultures of the conquered countries and capable of transmitting them to others.
		The Omayyad empire rapidly became a great cultural melting pot which engendered the creation of a new art, with new esthetic forms and cultural habits which manifested themselves in myriad constructions and even in new urban forms and images.
		If we were to characterize Omayyad architecture we would have to so so through two architectural types which would become characteristic in all of the later Muslim world.
	www.legadoandalusi.es /legado_eng/contenido/itinerarios/omeyas.html (793 words)

	Omayyad Mosque \| Damascus \| Travel Story and Pictures from Syria
		The Omayyad mosque can be entered from various points - when entering from the north, you can first visit the small mausoleum of Salah ad-Din, one of the great heroes of Arab history, with a small fountain and lush flowers in its courtyard.
		Turn one corner from this quiet place and you are asked to take off your shoes and take them with you upon entering the courtyard of the Omayyad mosque.
		Built in the 8th century, on the site of temples and a cathedral, the Omayyad mosque still today is considered to be one of the most outstanding mosques in the world.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/asia/omayyad.shtml (278 words)

	Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment
		The course of history decreed that it should not be in Syria or in Egypt that Hellenistic culture was introduced into Islam, but further to the East, in the lands where the Nestorian Church had worked, suffered, and flourished.
		One of the princes of the Omayyad house, Khalid b.
		These Omayyad princes were Arabs by race and sentiment, and their encouragement was given to the old desert poetry and traditions of Arab life.
	www.muhammadanism.org /bell/origin/p212.htm (523 words)

	IMAM HUSSEIN Leader of the Martyrs
		As the Holy Prophet Mohammad fought for the establishment of the Faith, his grandson fought for the continuity of the Faith.
		He proved to the Muslims that the Omayyads had taken Islam as a hiding screen behind which the disbelief in Islam was concealed.
		By his unique martyrdom the Imam laid the foundation of The School of Heroism whose graduates, from all generations, would not be intimidated by death.
	www.icofa.com /books/tragedy/19.htm (194 words)

	Cluster History
		The Sultan’s strategists indicated that Omayyad was the only system from which this could be accomplished, adding their promise to arrive there first and secure it.
		He did, however, intend on sending a drone into Omayyad at the appointed time, in order to send the all-clear signal to the Emperor’s forces.
		Their goal was to draw the Sultan’s forces back into the traps and minefields of Omayyad and the reinforcements gathered at Lombard.
	www.i-war2.com /epic/default.asp?id=33 (2872 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Syria, US shrouded in the fog of war
		The most famous Brotherhood attack was on army headquarters in Omayyad Square in central Damascus, and another on the Azbakiyye neighborhood, both conducted in the 1980s.
		Shortly afterward, a terrorist group was apprehended in Mu'arret al-Nu'man village, and another group was caught while preparing to detonate a bomb at peak time inside the Damascus Palace of Justice.
		Qaqa denied that he had ordered the Omayyad Square attack, but said some of his disgruntled students might have taken matters into their own hands without his blessing or knowledge.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HI15Ak01.html (1566 words)

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		For female worshippers who wish to make ritual ablutions (wuduu') before prayers at the Omayyad Mosque, you will find that the womens' wash area is always disappointingly locked.
		If you're a woman planning on praying in the Omayyad mosque, my best advice is to come prepared.
		I did want to try and ask an attendant to open the women's room in the Omayyad mosque itself (located in the courtyard area) but I did not get a chance.
	www.thebathroomdiaries.com /syria/damascus.html (298 words)

	Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment
		It was this fiscal difficulty which lay behind the ruthless policy of Hajjaj, the notorious but capable Omayyad governor of 'Iraq.
		They troubled Islam for many years, and were amongst the causes which led to the downfall of the Omayyad dynasty.
		What interests us is that it is proof of the fact that great numbers of the Christian population were passing over to Islam, and it indicates a very potent reason for that mass-conversion.
	www.muhammadanism.org /bell/origin/p188.htm (464 words)

	The Daily Texan
		Pope John Paul, on the second day of his pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Paul, met Orthodox and Catholic clergymen before visiting the Omayyad Mosque.
		Vatican and Syrian flags decorated the Omayyad Mosque in the old walled city at the heart of modern Damascus as the 80-year-old pontiff slipped off his shoes as tradition requires and entered the mosque.
		Leaning on a cane, he stumbled slightly at the threshold and while crossing the carpeted floor of the vast, white-columned hall glittering with chandeliers.
	tspweb02.tsp.utexas.edu /webarchive/05-07-01/SectionWN.html (285 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		He was the first pope to enter a synagogue, with his visit to Rome's main synagogue in 1986.
		The Omayyad Mosque stands on ground that has been holy since at least the ninth century B.C., when a people called the Aramaeans built a temple to their god Hadad.
		When the Romans ruled the region, the site was used as a temple to their god Jupiter.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/71/story_7130_1.html (400 words)

	Hospitals in Medievel Islam
		The Omayyad Caliphate represents a period of consolidation and proper organisation of Muslim resources.
		The third Omayyad Caliph, Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, who took much interest in public works, founded an institute for blind and disabled persons.
		He established the first medical dispensary in Islam in 88 A. and staffed it with a number of able physicians and surgeons.
	www.netmuslims.com /info/hospitals.html (2502 words)

	SYRIA - EASTERN RITES & ISLAMIC DAMASCUS
		The losers, became known as the Shiites, or Partisans (of Ali), and the bitterness that arose from the deaths of Ali and his sons still divide the Muslim world of today.
		As the chief city of the Middle East and Headquarters of Mu’awiyah, Damascus was the natural candidate for the capital of the new Islamic Empire - the Omayyad Caliphate, which lasted till its destruction by the Shiite Abbasids of Baghdad.
		Near the Omayyad Mosque were mausoleums of two great Middle Eastern sultans of the Age of the Crusaders - Salah Ad-Din, founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, and Baibars I, the most eminent of the Mamluk sultans.
	weecheng.com /mideast/syria/dama3.htm (1510 words)

	Association of The Syrian Arab Community in Italy
		It became the capital of the Omayyad dynasty which ruled the largest empire known until that time.
		Today, it is a modern city with a definite old-world character and charm, where many influences and traces of these civilizations can be felt and seen.
		A splended journey through time will take you from the Omayyad palace to the walls of a third century Roman synagogue passing by a Palmyrian underground tomb with its gazin statues.
	www.acsii.org /ssites.html (725 words)

	Pope John Paul II - Address at Omayyad Mosque of Damascus - 6 May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pope John Paul II - Address at Omayyad Mosque of Damascus - 6 May 2001
		I give heartfelt praise to Almighty God for the grace of this meeting.
		To the One, Merciful God be praise and glory for ever.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0264qr.htm (1054 words)

	The Pope Masses Christians & Muslims unite against the Jews
		Through an indirect and ingenious process hardly befitting a "tired old man" (as the mainstream media described him last week), the Pope was busily forming a paramilitary alliance between Europe and Russia, to the detriment of America and Israel.
		The Pope, the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to enter a mosque, said that from now on Muslims and Christians should be seen as in "respectful dialogue, nevermore as communities in conflict".
		The Omayyad Mosque, a place of worship for at least 3,000 years, was perhaps the only place in the world where such a gesture could have taken place.
	www.vialls.com /archives/pope1.html (1056 words)

	Caravan-Serai Tours - Tours - 12 Days in Lebanon and Syria
		Visit the Omayyad Mosque, the "Street Called Straight", Azzam Palace, the souq, and the National Museum.
		You will visit the ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon's most famous Roman treasure, and Anjar, unique in that it is exclusively from the Omayyad period.
		Aleppo, Anjar, Baalbek, Beirut, Beiteddin, Byblos, Damascus, Crac Des Chevaliers, Hama, Homs, Jeita, Ma'alula, Omayyad Mosque, Palmyra, Raqqa, Rasafa, Salahdine, St. Simeon, Sydnaya, Tabqa, Tripoli.
	www.caravan-serai.com /tours/12_days_in_lebanon_and_syria.html (769 words)

	Syria Tour, Travel to Syria, Vacation in Syria, Tour Syria and Turkey
		Biblical sites, great Omayyad mosques -- and the ancient/modern city of Damascus in only 7 days (6 nights).
		The climate is typical for the eastern Mediterranean: dry in summer with hot days and cool nights, mild and rainy in winter.
		At Palmyra (Tadmor), a hundred miles east of Homs, are the extensive ruins of a fabulously wealthy Roman city ruled by the famed Zenobia.
	www.travelinstyle.com /syria/index.html (537 words)

	Islam Today
		The malady had its origin as far back as the Omayyad regime and grew rapidly thereafter; later,.
		It was this deadly malady that brought about the ruin of the Omayyad Empire, vitiated the life of the Arab tribes, destroyed the Omayyads in Spain and ultimately caused the annihilation of the Muslims in that land.
		The Omayyads, for example, were challenged and ultimately destroyed by the Abbasids, who instigated the Persians against the Arabs with a view to promoting their own interests and replacing the Omayyad Kingship with their own.
	www.sa.niu.edu /msa/articles/islamtoday_3_1.htm (927 words)

	Visit Syria - Tourism in Syria, English Page
		This great Mosque stands at the heart of the Old City at the end of Souq al-Hamidiyeh.It was built by the Omayyad Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdul Malek in 705 A.D. when Damascus was the capital of the Arab Islamic Empire.
		Founded by Darwish Pasha in 1574.Its entrance is at the end of souq al-Hamidiyeh just outside the Omayyad Mosque.Its shops are filled with local embroidered cloths, perfume essence, and tailoring and sewing requisites.Here, too, a number of old khans have been converted into shops, best known for their cloaks, capes, mantles, shawls, and 'galabiyas'.
		In the middle of this souq stands a bath (one of the two hundred public baths) which has been in continuous use from the twelfth century.
	www.visit-syria.com /endamon.htm (364 words)

	cctraveler2's Travel Blog, Travel Photos, Hotel Reviews \| Page8
		If you want to relax a bit in the old city, there are several really relaxing tea houses just behind the Omayyad mosque where you can sit and sip for hours.
		Across the square is the Omayyad Mosque (early 8th century) a must-see.
		Around the Omayyad Mosque are several khans (old hostelries for traveling merchants and pilgrims) and madrasas (theological schools).
	www.travelpost.com /travel/cctraveler2/page8 (2393 words)

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