Definition of Umayyad in English:
Umayyad
(also Omayyad)
noun ʊˈmʌɪjaduˈmaɪjəd
A member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain 756–1031. The dynasty claimed descent from Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad.
（公元660或661至750年间统治伊斯兰世界和公元756-1031年统治摩尔人西班牙的）伍麦叶王朝统治者
Example sentencesExamples
- The one surviving member of the Umayyads fled to Spain where he continued to claim to be caliph at Cordoba.
- The Umayyads and other dynasties regularly extended cordial relations to local Christian communities even at a time when Muslim armies battled Greek Byzantine forces and European Crusaders.
- Later Muslim historians accused the Umayyads of transforming the Islamic state into an Arab kingdom.
- In Spain under the Umayyads and in Baghdad under the Abbasid Khalifahs, Christians and Jews enjoyed a freedom of religion that they did not allow each other or anyone else.
- Honest and pious Muslims opposed to Umayyads usurping power were severely persecuted.
adjective ʊˈmʌɪjaduˈmaɪjəd
Relating to the Umayyad dynasty.
伍麦叶王朝的
Example sentencesExamples
- The Zaydis favored Zayd ibn Ali, grandson of Husayn, as fifth imam due to his activist revolutionary position against the Umayyad dynasty.
- The black, white and green bands represent the Arab Abbasid, Umayyad and Fatimid dynasties respectively, while the crimson triangle joining the bands represents the Hashemite dynasty.
- Early Umayyad caliphs and some of the Abbasids who supplanted them employed the title khalifat Allah - deputy or vice-regent of God (as did some later Muslim sovereigns, such as the Sultan of Jogjakarta in Java).
- The example of Caliph Abdul Aziz from Umayyad dynasty is well known.
- Would it be during that Umayyad caliphate, then, this spread of Islam from Syria, from Damascus, that we begin to see Islam moving beyond just an Arabian religion?
Definition of Umayyad in US English:
Umayyad
(also Omayyad)
nouno͞oˈmīyəduˈmaɪjəd
A member of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain from 756 to 1031. The dynasty claimed descent from Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad.
（公元660或661至750年间统治伊斯兰世界和公元756-1031年统治摩尔人西班牙的）伍麦叶王朝统治者
Example sentencesExamples
- The Umayyads and other dynasties regularly extended cordial relations to local Christian communities even at a time when Muslim armies battled Greek Byzantine forces and European Crusaders.
- The one surviving member of the Umayyads fled to Spain where he continued to claim to be caliph at Cordoba.
- Later Muslim historians accused the Umayyads of transforming the Islamic state into an Arab kingdom.
- Honest and pious Muslims opposed to Umayyads usurping power were severely persecuted.
- In Spain under the Umayyads and in Baghdad under the Abbasid Khalifahs, Christians and Jews enjoyed a freedom of religion that they did not allow each other or anyone else.
adjectiveo͞oˈmīyəduˈmaɪjəd
Relating to the Umayyad dynasty.
伍麦叶王朝的
Example sentencesExamples
- The black, white and green bands represent the Arab Abbasid, Umayyad and Fatimid dynasties respectively, while the crimson triangle joining the bands represents the Hashemite dynasty.
- Would it be during that Umayyad caliphate, then, this spread of Islam from Syria, from Damascus, that we begin to see Islam moving beyond just an Arabian religion?
- The example of Caliph Abdul Aziz from Umayyad dynasty is well known.
- The Zaydis favored Zayd ibn Ali, grandson of Husayn, as fifth imam due to his activist revolutionary position against the Umayyad dynasty.
- Early Umayyad caliphs and some of the Abbasids who supplanted them employed the title khalifat Allah - deputy or vice-regent of God (as did some later Muslim sovereigns, such as the Sultan of Jogjakarta in Java).