Umayyad

“Palmyra, Krac des Chevaliers, Afamia, the Umayyad Mosque—I took them everywhere,” he said, speaking to me in English.

With his death, however, the decline of the Umayyad dynasty began.

The Umayyads, with a single exception, were The Umayyad dynasty.

Von Kremer, however, traces their origin to the theological controversies of the Umayyad period.