Al-Walid I

Type Figure Region West Asia Time c. 668–715 Also known as Abd al-Malik ibn al-Walid

Al-Walid I (c. 668–715) was the sixth Umayyad caliph, reigning 705–715; he extended his father Abd al-Malik's centralizing and Arabizing policies, ex…

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c. 668–705Medina · HejazBorn in Medina into a Umayyad noble family, son of Caliph Abd al-Malik. He received religious and administrative education in his youth, was later named crown prince, and participated in imperial affairs, accumulating military and political experience for his accession.
705–715Damascus · SyriaAfter acceding he continued expansion: Tariq conquered Iberia, Kutayba pushed deep into Central Asia, and Muhammad ibn Qasim conquered Sindh. He undertook major construction, expanding the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and reformed the tax and postal systems.

Sources

Al-Walid I https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Walid-I
The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1A — P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis (eds.) (1970)