ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; c. 690/91 — 26 January 724), commonly known as Yazid II, was the ninth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 720 until his death in 724....

father Muawiyah Yazid II (687–724), Umayyad caliph Yazid III (701–744), Umayyad caliph Yazeed Abulaila (born 1993), Jordanian footballer Yazid Kaïssi (born...

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: يزيد بن معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Sufyān; c. 646 – 11 November 683), commonly...

commonly known as Mu'awiya II, was the third Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 683–684. He succeeded his father Yazid I as the third caliph and...

Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi. His father, Yazid II ruled the Caliphate from 720 to January 724. Yazid II died in Irbid in the Balqa (i.e. Transjordan)...

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi (Arabic: يزيد بن المهلب, romanized: Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdī; 672/673–24 August 720) was a commander and statesman...

their capital Damascus. When the reigning Caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683) and his son and successor, Mu'awiya II (r. 683–684), died in quick succession in 683...

Yazid was only released c. 717 by the Caliph Omar II in an act of general clemency In 720, in the course of a new administrative sweep, Caliph Yazid II...

his brother, Caliph Yazid II (r. 720–724). Upon the counsel of their brother, the prominent general Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, Yazid nominated Hisham as...

Umayyad caliph Yazid. She was the sister of third Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya II. Before Yazid I died, he had the bay'ah made to his son. Mu'awiya II succeeded...

Yazid ibn Ahmad or Yazid II (Arabic: یزید) was the tenth Shirvanshah. Yazid was second son of Shirvanshah Ahmad. He followed his brother Muhammad IV on...

Press. ISBN 978-0-306814808. Lammens, H. & Blankinship, Kh. Y. (2002). "Yazīd (II) b. ʿAbd al-Malik". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.;...

Muawiya, Yazid, Marwan, Abd al-Malik, Walid, Sulayman, Umar, Hisham, and Ibrahim. Some names were re-used, as in the case of Yazid II and Yazid III, which...

Mu'awiya I's son and successor, Yazid I. Sufyanid rule ceased with the death of the latter's son Mu'awiya II in 684, though Yazid's other sons, Khalid and Abd...

slave singer and poet of the Caliph Yazid II. Hababah was a slave, brought to the Umayyad harem of the Caliph Yazid II as a concubine. She was a non-Arab...

Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, romanized: Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was...

Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: يزيد بن الوليد بن عبد الملك, romanized: Yazīd ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; 701 – 3/4 October 744), commonly...

the Copts under Umar II, but the accession of Yazid II after him made things even worse than they had been under Al-Walid. Yazid not only reinstated all...

famous principal wife of the ninth Umayyad caliph Yazid II and mother of eleventh Umayyad caliph Al-Walid II. Her full name was Umm al-Hajjaj bint Muhammad...

successor, Umar II, in 718. After his brother Yazid II (r. 720–724) came to power, Maslama was sent to suppress the revolt of Yazid ibn al-Muhallab in...

Yazidism, also known as Sharfadin, is a monotheistic ethnic religion that originated in Kurdistan and has roots in a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion...

al-Walid II (r. 743–744) who had succeeded his uncle Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743). Hisham had been appointed by his brother, Yazid II (r. 720–724)...

Silver dirham of Yazid II minted in 721–722 CE...

ibn Abd al-Aziz and succession of his cousin Yazid II on 4th February 720. 724: Death of caliph Yazid II and he was succeeded by his brother and nominated...

near Ma'arrat al-Nu'man. Her husband was succeeded by her half brother Yazid II, cousin of Umar. Fatima died around 720s after her husband death. Fatima...

mutual influence of Muslim and Byzantine iconoclasm, noting that Caliph Yazid II had issued an iconoclastic edict, also targeting his Christian subjects...

Sufyanid power rested. In a matter of months the authority of Yazid's successor, Mu'awiya II, was restricted to Damascus and its environs. Although the Umayyads...

715 CE most of his captured territories were recaptured by Indian kings. Yazid II (720 to 724 CE) launched the third Umayyad expansion alongall the warring...

known as "the one-eyed", becomes High King of Ireland. January 26 – Caliph Yazid II dies of tuberculosis after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother...

the Byzantine Empire in 743. Al-Ghamr was the son of the Umayyad caliph Yazid II (r. 720–724). He owned extensive estates around Harran and resided in the...