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  Encyclopedia: Yazid I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid was duly proclaimed caliph upon his father's death.
[edit] Battle of Karbala Yazid was first opposed by the grandson of Muhammad, Husayn bin Ali, the son of the assassinated former caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Though Sunnis generally agree that Yazid was not a righteous Caliph, they differ on the nature of Husayn's opposition to Yazid's rule and Yazid's culpability in Husayn's death.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yazid-I   (934 words)

  
 Yazid I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yazid was first opposed by the grandson of Muhammad, Husayn bin Ali, the son of the assassinated former caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Some Sunni authorities have claimed that Husayn opposed Yazid's ascension to the Caliphate but did not actively revolt against him, and that Husayn's killing was ordered not by Yazid but by the Umayyad governor of Iraq Ubaidallah ibn Ziyad.
Historians who judge Yazid as an administrator rather than a religious figure take a kinder view of the man. Yazid energetically tried to continue his father's policies and retained many of the men who served him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazid_I   (886 words)

  
 Yazid II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yazid bin Abd al-Malik or Yazid II (687 - 724) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 720 until his death in 724.
Yazid's reign was heavily smitten with internal and external conflicts.
Yazid II would die in 724 of tuberculosis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazid_II   (141 words)

  
 Yazid 1
Yazid's reign was dominated by great divisions of the Muslim world, and he died before he had a chance to take control over rebellious regions, like the Hijaz.
Yazid accomplished relatively much in his short reign, he introduced reforms to the bureaucracy and military, he altered the taxations system and saw to many improvements of the agriculture and irrigation of the capital Damascus.
Yazid dies before the campaign is concluded, and with his death the caliphate troops withdraws from Mecca.
lexicorient.com /e.o/uyazid1.htm   (198 words)

  
 Yazid I - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Husayn wasn't the only eminent figure to oppose Yazid's ascension to the caliphate; he was also opposed by Abdullah bin Zubayr who claimed to be the true caliph.
When the people of the Hejaz began giving allegiance to Abdullah, Yazid sent armies to subdue the province, and Mecca was besieged.
During the siege, the Kaba was damaged, but the siege was ended with Yazid's sudden death in 683.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Yazid_I   (128 words)

  
 Muawiyah I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mu'awiyah is mostly remembered for his career in Syria, which began shortly after the death of the Prophet, when he, along with his brother Yazid, served in the tribal armies sent from Arabia against the Byzantine forces in Syria.
Upon the death of Yazid in 640, Mu'awiyah was appointed governor of Syria by the caliph 'Umar and gradually gained mastery over the other areas of Syria, instilling remarkable personal loyalty among the prelates, troops and common people of the region.
By 647 Mu'awiyah had built a Syrian tribal army strong enough to repel a Byzantine attack and, in subsequent years, to take the offensive against the Byzantines in campaigns that resulted in the capture of Cyprus (649) and Rhodes (654) and a devastating defeat of the Byzantine navy off the coast of Lycia (655).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muawiyah   (1005 words)

  
 The Martyrdom of Imam Hussain
Yazid was at that time the despotic ruler of the Muslim world, who came to power as the self-proclaimed “sixth caliph of Islam” after the death of his father, Mu’awiya.
Yazid had been successful in winning over the allegiance of the great majority of Muslims, and the rest of the Muslim world was in a state of moral slumber.
Yazid, and indeed all future despots, were put on notice that they would not be tolerated, and that truth and justice would be upheld and would ultimately succeed, regardless of the costs.
www.irfi.org /articles/articles_51_100/martyrdom_of_imam_hussain.htm   (2325 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Malaysia orders terror suspect held, says he has more to tell about al-Qaeda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war.
Security officials have told AP that Yazid described the chemical and biological weapons program he and Hambali were building for al-Qaeda as being in the "conceptual stages" when their plans were interrupted by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Yazid is accused of allowing Hambali and other top al-Qaeda operatives — including two eventual Sept. 11 hijackers — to use an apartment he owned for meetings in Malaysia in January 2000.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-01-28-mal-terror_x.htm   (585 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Al-Qaeda program to make WMD halted by Afghan war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
By mid-2001, Yazid was in Kandahar, the southern Afghan city that was the base of al-Qaeda's Taliban hosts, and working on a program "to equip al-Qaeda with the capability to launch a chemical attack," a Malaysian official said.
Yazid — who police say is trained in counterinterrogation techniques and is "cooperative only in areas that he chooses to" — has been evasive about chemical or biological weapons he was working on, an official said.
Yazid has told Malaysian authorities the program was in its "conceptual stages" when it was abandoned when the U.S.-led attack on the Taliban started in October 2001, an official said.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-01-26-al-qaeda-wmd_x.htm   (937 words)

  
 The House of David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (L) Every now and then I run across a Shi'a site that invokes the curse of God (la'nah) upon Yazid ibn Mu'awiya, "Caliph of God" and "Amir of the Believers" from 680 to 682 CE.
Yazid reacted by sending an army at Mecca, where he bombed the Ka'ba with a catapult.
It is more likely that Yazid got the office by "virtue" of being the son of the last guy in charge (who was no saint himself, by the way).
pages.sbcglobal.net /zimriel/blog/2004_12_01_blogarchive.html   (518 words)

  
 Uwaiysi Tarighat: Featured Article
His advice to Yazid was to do the same and not force the issue on Imam Hossein for Mu’awiyah understood the grave consequences of doing so.
Imam Hossein was determined not to give Yazid his allegiance and he was aware of the consequences of his decision and knew that his death was inevitable.
The event of Karbala, the inhumane treatment of the household of the prophet, the speeches given by Hazrat Ali’s daughter, Hazrat Zeinab and the fourth Imam, Ali Ibn Hossein, disgraced the Umayyads.
www.uwaiysi.org /features_archive/2002_apr.html   (1075 words)

  
 Ziaraat.com - Imam Sajjad(a.s.) - About
In the courts of Ibn-e-Ziyad and Yazid, Imam Sajjad(a.s.) gave lion-hearted lectures and presented the true Islam to the listeners and introduced himself and his accompanying members as the descendents of the Prophet Mohammad(pbuhandhf) and the leaders appointed by Allah(swt).
Yazid was afraid that if the Imam continued his speech, there would be a revolution and revolt.
Yazid had to free the Imam(a.s.) out of fear of his own rulership, therefore, Imam(a.s.) was still not completely safe from his evil designs even upon reaching back to Madina.
www.ziaraat.com /mdnsaj01.html   (1785 words)

  
 Yazid I. - netlexikon
Yazid I. November 683) war der zweite Kalif der Umayyaden (680-683).
Nach dem frühen Tod von Yazid I. wurde dessen Sohn Muawiya II.
Der schnelle Wechsel der Kalifen und der Rückzug der umayyadischen Truppen aus dem Hedschas nach dem Tod Yazid I. führte zur Ausrufung des Kalifen Abdallah ibn az-Zubair (684-692) und zu einer schweren Krise der umayyadischen Herrschaft.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Yazid-I..html   (430 words)

  
 CBS News | Controversial Law Detains Suspect | February 4, 2002 13:44:26
Yazid, 37, was arrested Dec. 9 as he returned to Malaysia from Afghanistan.
Yazid was the first of 23 arrests in the past two months in a crackdown on what officials say is a local Islamic group with ties to al-Qaida and a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy and other pro-Western targets in neighboring Singapore.
Moussaoui was Yazid's guest during a visit to Malaysia in September 2000, when he opened in Internet account and received a letter naming him as the U.S. and European representative of a Malaysian computer software company.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/02/04/attack/main328147.shtml   (648 words)

  
 Print Message
Yazid, a former Malaysian army captain, allegedly allowed al-Qaida operatives, including two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, meet in an apartment he owned near Kuala Lumpur in January 2000.
Yazid also allegedly gave Zacarias Moussaoui, who is charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, a letter of employment that officials believe may have helped him get a U.S. visa.
Yazid and other alleged members of the group were arrested in December.
www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/81407/692750   (387 words)

  
 HUSAYN: AN EXEMPLAR
Under the threat of bayonets, the caliphate of Islam was transferred to Yazid, son of Mu'awiyah, who was not fit for that high position or, for that matter, he did not deserve even the smallest post in an Islamic government.
Yazid's men showed their basest wickedness and malice inasmuch as they banned the Imam and his companions from access to water of the nearby Euphrates River, did not allow them to say their prayers and killed even an infant son of Hussain.
Thereafter, Yazid went on to commit to commit such atrocities never seen in the history of the Muslims.  He ransacked the holy city of Madinah.  He also ransacked the holy Ka’aba in the holy city of Mecca and committed other shameful crimes, which are recorded and stand unprecedented in history.
www.shirazi.org.uk /exemplar.htm   (3108 words)

  
 Three Dreadful Crimes of Yazid ibn Muawiya || Imam Reza (A.S.) Network
Yazid son of Muawiya with that inhuman and wicked qualities in his first year of his rule martyred the "Leader of the Youth of the Paradise" Abu Abdullah al-Husain(A.S.) and his family and companions in that tragic state.
Yazid on previous advice of his father Muawiya,send a heartless and bloody old man Muslim ibn Aqbah with a strong army towards the holy tomb of Prophet of Islam(S.A.W.) at Madinah.The army of Yazid in that holy city committed such a heinous crimes that the pen is ashamed to describe it.
Yazid in the period of only three years caliphate committed heinous crimes.In his first year of rule he martyred Sayyid ush- Shuhada Imam Husain(A.S.) and captivated his whole family.In his second year of rule allowed his army to kill,loot and transgress the chastity of women in the holy city of Madinah.
www.imamreza.net /eng/imamreza.php?id=636   (852 words)

  
 ELI 1999 Newsletter -- Profiles
Yazid fondly remembers the two-story house with a center courtyard full of orange trees and jasmine bushes.
After the children were older, Yazid began teaching English in Algiers to foreign students at the American Language Institute, a job which she thoroughly enjoyed.
Then, in 1994, because of Algeria's internal struggles and her husband's fear for her safety, Yazid moved back to the States, to be joined by her three children (two daughters and a son) and grandchildren, and began tutoring full-time at ELI's tutoring center.
www.udel.edu /eli/99news/99profiles.html   (1400 words)

  
 Comparative Index to Islam : YAZID I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid I was the son of Mu'awiya and was the second Caliph of the Ummayyad Dynasty.
His father, Mu'awiya, designated Yazid as his successor, establishing hereditary succession as the norm for the Caliphate.
Yazid I was responsible for the death of
www.answering-islam.org.uk /Index/Y/yazid1.html   (109 words)

  
 Abu Yazid Khariji
Abu Yazid Khariji, or Abu Yazid Makhlad bin Kaydad, traced his tribal origin to the clan of Ifran, one of the leading branches of the Zanata.
Fazal, the son of Abu Yazid continued the revolt in the Awras for a few months until he, too, was subdued and was brought to Mahdiya by Batit bin Ya'la bin Batit in 336/948.
When al-Mansur was subduing Abu Yazid's revolt, a report reached to him about a petty uprising of Hamid Bazaltain, the chief of the Maghrib, who had laid a siege over Tahrat soon after announcing his loyalty with the Umayyads of Spain.
www.ismaili.net /histoire/history05/history527.html   (753 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid knew that he could not kill Imam Hussain in Medina as Imam Hussain was too popular with the people and that his murder would expose Yazid for what he was.
Until this point Yazid's Generals had yielded to the command to hide the murder of Imam Hussain but the vast army of Yazid had witnessed what had happened and was about to rebel.
When news came that Yazid was dead the Shias saw their chance and rose armies to take over and make the son of Imam Hussain called Imam Zainul Abidin the new Caliph.
www.angelfire.com /bug/j_abidbata/jigsaw.html   (6177 words)

  
 Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid called himself the successor of Muhammad (SA) but this was a lie.
When `Yazid became ruler of the Muslims he immediately demanded al-'Imam al-Husayn (AS) to recognize him as the ruler and accept his leadership; but al-'lmam al-Husayn (AS) was the true successor of Prophet Muhammad (SA) and could not accept and endorse the leadership of an oppressor.
The Imam (AS) told them: "Never will I accept disgrace and surrender to Yazid Death for me is superior to disgrace and I am ready to defend Islam and the Muslims until lam martyred." At a place called Karbala' al-'Imam al-Husayn (AS), his family and helpers were surrounded by Yazid's troops.
www.al-shia.com /html/eng/books/miscelleneous/stories/428ashur.htm   (581 words)

  
 Highlights of Karbala: Islamic Occasions Network
But Yazid, the tyrant ruler over the Ummah, was adamant in his demand, and tension between the two parties increased day by day.
Since Yazid had ordered his commanders to seize the Imam's allegiance of loyalty at any cost, even by brutal force, the commanders had to assemble a relatively large army, surrounding Imam Hussain's camp in a desert called Karbala.
His goal was to foil the plan that Mu'awiya had expertly developed for his son, Yazid, which was to establish a permanent Benu Umayya ruler ship over the Muslim Ummah (even by sacrificing the Islamic principles), but doing it in the name of Islam.
www.ezsoftech.com /islamic/moharram1.asp   (1331 words)

  
 Caliph Yazid and the Umayyad dynasties
His son, known as Yazid of Wines since he abandoned rose sherbet for the grape, an amiable and democratic prince, sportsman, musician, and poet, was for hundreds of years perhaps the most vilified ruler in history.
It was his misfortune to have sacked rebellious Medina (in what is now Saudi Arabia) and borne the responsibility for the Battle of Kerbala (in present-day Iraq) where Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad together with his followers, was defeated and killed.
Yazid himself was an accomplished musician and poet and one of his verses which has survived runs as follows:
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/980323/1998032326.html   (824 words)

  
 Shi'i   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
When Mu'awiya died in 680 CE, Husayn left Medina in direction of Kufa, with the hope that he would be heard in his claim to the Caliphate.
He never came to Kufa, but was trapped in the desert at Karbala by the soldiers of the new Caliph Yazid, son of Mu'awiya.
As the main tenet of the Shi'i is the illegitimacy of the Caliphate after Ali, over the next few centuries the Shi'i cause drew many supporters from among the disaffected in the Caliphate, frequently among those not of Arab origin, who were considered second class citizens.
lexicorient.com /e.o/shii.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Lamentations-Chapter One
Mu'awiyah had secured allegiance for Yazid from the majority of the Muslims apart from a few renowned personalities of the day, among whom were Imam al-Husayn, 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar, 'Abd Allah ibn Zubayr and 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr.
The fear and concern that Mu'awiyah had because these individuals had not paid allegiance to Yazid is demonstrated in his last will to Yazid, written as he approached his death.
After the death of Mu'awiyah, Yazid dispatched a letter to the governor of Medina, Walid ibn 'Utbah ibn Abi Sufyan, who was also his cousin.
almahdi.4t.com /issue7/page7.html   (379 words)

  
 Yazid I.
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Yazid I. † 683) Sohn und Nachfolger des ersten Umaiyaden kalifen Mu’awiya
Al-Husain wurde dadurch einer Zentralgestalt der Schiiten während Yazid unter ihnen als blutgieriger Berühmtheit erlangte.
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Yazid_I..html   (96 words)

  
 14 M A S U M E E N ............   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid's soldiers will fight with us and we will be killed.
Despite having so many men in Yazid's army, his commanders were still worried because the 72 men in Hussain(a.s)'s army were no ordinary men.
Yazid's soldiers knew this and therefore thought of a way to weaken Hussain(a.s)'s army.
www.14masumeen.com /html/atricles/m2.htm   (629 words)

  
 The Islamic Digest On Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yazid called himself the successor of Muhammad (s.a.w) but this was a lie.
When Yazid became ruler of the Muslims he immediately demanded al-Imam al-Husayn (a.s) to recognise him as the ruler and accept his leadership; but al-Imam al-Husayn (a.s) was the true successor of Prophet muhammad (s.a.w) and could not accept and endorse the leadership of an oppressor.
When the Imam (a.s) and his followers were near Kufa, they were met by Yazid's troops.
al-shia.com /html/eng/books/miscelleneous/islam-in-general/general1.htm   (571 words)

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