Third Fitna
The Third Fitna was a series of civil wars and uprisings in the Islamic community. It followed the death of the twelfth Umayyad caliph Yazid III in 744 and lasted for about six years. The war culminated with the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate and the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750. Following the death of Yazid III in 744 and the abdication of his successor Ibrahim the same year, Marwan II became the sole ruler of the caliphate.
| Third Fitna | |||||||||
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| Part of the Fitnas and the Qays–Yaman rivalry | |||||||||
The Umayyad Caliphate at its greatest extent c. 740, before the Third Fitna | |||||||||
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| Umayyads | Abbasids | Alids | Kharijites | ||||||
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Marwan II † (750) Abu al-Ward Nasr ibn Sayyar † (748) Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra |
Saffah Abu Muslim Qahtaba ibn Shabib † (749) Hafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami |
Abdallah ibn Mu'awiya † (746/7) Al-Harith ibn Surayj |
Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani (745) † Talib al-Haqq (747) † | ||||||
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