Why did the Umayyad Caliphate Collapse?

Actually the end of the video is wrong. The last heir of the Umayyads run away, he took control of Iberia and became caliph of Al-Andalus.

If Caliph Suleiman ibn Abd al-Malik did not desire to fulfill the prophecy by becoming the blessed Muslim commander who will seized Constantinople for Islam according to the prophecy of the Prophet, the Umayyad Caliphate could have saved a lot of money and the rebellion against them might be averted.

1. Abbasid superiority 2. Catastrophic defeats from the romans 3. Revolts everywhere

One thousand three hundred years have passed, and the Umayyads have gone with it, but still some losers blame them for their modern-day failures, what a great empire!

The native berbers of morocco defeated three umayyads army one after one after one after one and you didn't put that in the video specially the berbers of North Africa fight against umayyad caliphate army's for over 70 years non stop in the end the umayyads lost Morocco and Algeria and after 7 years of this the umayyad caliphate get destroyed by the new super power the Abbasid caliphate (non Arabs Persians)

why don't you also mention millions of Zoroastrians that were in Iran under Umayyads?

Really awesome Video! I have one bit of constructive criticism tho: could you please link your sources in the description in the future? I would love to read more about the topic and it would really install confidence in the truthfullness of you guys' Videos ^^

Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah is one of the figures who formed the original institution that had an impact on the Islamic world. He is the one who organized this revolution that became known as the Black Flags Revolution. He was given a nickname by this name, al-Saffah, because of the large amount of blood he shed.

10:09So are you telling me that the Berbers, the Spaniards, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Kurds and the Syrians were 10% of the population?😅

Before the third khalifa die he requested help from his cousin but his cousin didn't respond and his main reason for war was because ali wanted to remove him from his place

1:44 Stats of the Umuyyad Caliphate, the largest Islamic Arab empire of all time. 6:50 This first Caliph Mu'awaya set the foundatuons for the Umayyad Caliphate to be stable in the future.

Thanks. Would have liked a more detailed coverage of the Battle of Zab but it did give me a nice overview.

Good video !

1:22 You made a fatal mistake The Umayyads were not defeated in the Zab by Abu Muslim, but by Abdullah bin Ali, a member of the Abbasid dynasty.

Abu muslim never ever lead or was involving in battle of zab!! It was abdallah ibn ali. abu muslim only took over merv and hold abbasid flag. read my comments because its based of historical sources not from wikipdia. more than half abbasid army was made up of arab tribes of iraqi and khoursan even majority general was arabs only 2 persian abu muslim and ibn awn. Qatahba ibn shabib is arab was the main general carried out on major abbasid revolt he took persia and iraq from umayyad for final battle which its zab was lead by another arab abdallah ibn ali. Many sources agreed on it such as chrincole of 757 and islamic sources confirmed it was abdallah ibn ali who lead like al tabari in his book history of al tabari vol 7 page 432 and ibn kathir book Al Bidaya wan Nihaya vol 13 page 254 and 255 and many historians agreed there is no mention of abu muslim in battle of zab wikipdia is not realiable sources menioned name abu muslim in battle of zab in wikipdia page made by iranian probganda Lets jump how umayyad was fell during thrid fitna occured 745 the princes of umayayd cousin was fought each other in throne and conflicts rivlary between al Qays and Yaman fighting each other in khoursan and iraq, although marwan managed to kill 3 princes fighting in throne Al Walid II and yazid III and ibrahim who caused fitna and people of levantine was getting upest due umayyad goverment drove into corruption, when marawn was unable to end internal conflicts he decided to abandon damascus capital of umayyad that was main power for umayyad and moved capital Harran leaving fitna to be on going till abbasid took advantage established their revolution in 747 and announcement of establishment their state. not trying down playing marawn was great he leading succesfully champigan aganist khazar and bezntyine and arabs khwarijies but he did mistake but moving capital and leaving fitna on going which on of main reason islamic sources called him " the donkey " if he didn't such stupid thing like that abbasid wouldn't came into existence.

Video on Decline of Abbasid caliphate????

هناك العديد من الاخطاء مثل ان الخلافة يجب ان تكون لشخص ينحدر من نسب مباشرة فلم يكن ابو بكر و لا عمر و لا عثمان يعتبروا ممن ينحدر حتى معاوية من ناحية النسب اقرب للنبي من عمر و ابو بكر ايضا معاوية لم تحدث في عهده الكثير من الاضطرابات و اذا حدثت فكان يتعامل معها باللين حتى انه كان مضرب المثل بالصبر و الحلم على من يظلمونه اما القمع بعنف و وحشية حدثت في عهد عبدالملك بن مروان و ابنه الوليد طبعا الكثير من الاخطاء الاخرى لكنها كثيرة ،ارجو ان يؤخذ ما اقوله و ان تاخذ من المصادر الصحيحة

Yeah, being assassinated en masse by a rival faction will do that to you

Why you don't mentioned the backstabbing of the Abu Muslim by the calipha.

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about Aumayyad empire collapsed by Abbassid revolutionary armies...video clearly explained all reasons which imposed people's backed Abbassid assaults against former Aumayyed government from khorasan to Iran and Iraq....Aumayyed empire economic, society tyranny was unthinkable and horrible comparably to previous Rashedden caliphate Era....even in Syria