# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abd-al-malik-ibn-marwan
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:51:03.834Z

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name: "Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan"
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description: "He took power when the Umayyad Caliphate had shattered into rival claims and spent seventeen years forcing it back together — first by treaty and truce, then by siege and sword. The reunification under Abd al-Malik remade Islamic governance: one currency, one language for the state, and the Dome of the Rock rising in Jerusalem as the first stone monument of "
tagline: "Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705"
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birthDate: "646"
deathDate: "0705-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born into the first generation to grow up Muslim, Abd al-Malik served in administrative and military roles under the early Umayyad caliphs before inheriting a collapsing realm in April 685. After a failed push into Iraq the next year, he secured Syria through an unfavorable peace with Byzantium in 689, crushed a coup in Damascus, and brought the northern tribes back into the fold. By late 692 his general al-Hajjaj had killed the rival caliph Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, reuniting the Caliphate. The following years brought renewed war with Byzantium, the destruction of Carthage, the retaking of Kairouan, and al-Hajjaj's brutal consolidation of Iraq and the east by 702. Abd al-Malik replaced Greek and Persian in the bureaucracy with Arabic, minted a unified Islamic coinage, and centralized control by deploying Syrian loyalists across the provinces while cutting the old garrison stipends. He died in October 705, leaving his son a state at its territorial peak and a template of centralized rule that would shape Muslim governance for centuries.