Yazid I
Second caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683)
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Updated 2026-06-08
He inherited the caliphate from his father in 680 and triggered a rupture in Islam that never healed. The death of Muhammad's grandson Husayn at Karbala on his watch made his name shorthand for illegitimacy in much of the Muslim world.
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Yazid ibn Mu'awiya was born around 646 and spent his father's reign leading campaigns against Byzantium, including an assault on Constantinople. When Mu'awiya named him heir in 676, it was Islam's first hereditary succession — and several prominent figures in the Hejaz refused to accept it. After Yazid took power in April 680, Husayn ibn Ali left Mecca for Iraq to lead a revolt and was killed with his followers at the Battle of Karbala. The backlash was immediate: Medina rose in support of the rival claimant Ibn al-Zubayr, so Yazid sent an army that crushed the city in August 683 and left it p…
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