How to pronounce“umayyads”in English

Which eventually led to the emergence of Uthman’s tribe, the Umayyads, as the dynasty ruling over an ever-expanding Islamic Empire for more than a hundred years.

But early Islamic dynasties, like the Umayyads and the Abbasids, were perfectly happy with Christians and Jews living among them, as long as they paid a

we’re all supposed to be equal.” And pretty quickly the majority of Muslims weren’t Arabs, which made it pretty easy for them to overthrow the Umayyads,

The Umayyad Dynasty then expanded the empire west to Spain and moved the capital to Damascus, because it was closer to the action, empire-wise but still in Arabia.