Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan was the fifth Umayyad caliph, known for reuniting the caliphate and advancing military conquests during his reign from 685 to 705. He established the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and introduced a standardized Islamic currency and Arabic as the bureaucratic language. His centralized government model influenced later medieval Muslim states.

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Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
(c. 646 – 705) was the fifth
Umayyad caliph, ruling from
April 685 until his death. At his
accession, Umayyad authority in
the Caliphate had been restricted
to Syria and Egypt as a result of
the second Muslim civil war. Abd
al-Malik reunited the Caliphate
after defeating the Zubayrids at
the Battle of Maskin in Iraq in 691 and the siege of
Mecca in 692. The wars with Byzantium recommenced,
resulting in Umayyad advances into Anatolia and
Armenia and the recapture of Kairouan, which led to
the conquests of Northwest Africa and most of the
Iberian Peninsula during the reign of his son and
successor, al-Walid I. Abd al-Malik founded the Dome
of the Rock in Jerusalem, the earliest archaeologically
attested religious monument built by a Muslim ruler. He
introduced a single Islamic currency and established
Arabic as the language of the bureaucracy, replacing
Greek in Syria and Persian in Iraq. His centralized
government became the prototype of later medieval
Muslim states. (Full article...)
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