Donald P. Little
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LOCATION: Montreal, Canada
Professor, Institute of Islāmic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Author of An Introduction to Mamlūk Historiography.
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Muʿāwiyah I was an early Islamic leader and founder of the great Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. He fought against the fourth caliph, ʿAlī (Muhammad’s son-in-law), seized Egypt, and assumed the caliphate after ʿAlī’s assassination. He restored unity to the Muslim empire and made Damascus its capital.…
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