Muawiya II
Umayyad caliph from 683 to 684
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He ruled for months, barely governed, then — if the story holds — stood up and renounced the throne his grandfather built. Whether that sermon ever happened or was invented by enemies, the question shadows everything about the third Umayyad caliph.
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Mu'awiya II took power in 683 during the Second Fitna, a civil war that had already reduced Umayyad control to Damascus and patches of southern Syria while a rival claimed the caliphate from Mecca. He was chronically sick, did little, and reportedly kept his father Yazid I's tax cuts in place. Then came the sermon recorded by Al-Ya'qubi: a public denunciation of his predecessors and an abdication — though historians treat the account as possibly sectarian fiction. He died without children, ending the Sufyanid line and triggering the succession crisis that brought the Marwanids to power under M…
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