Banu Kalb
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The Banu Kalb was an Arab tribe which mainly dwelt in the desert and steppe of northwestern Arabia and central Syria in the 5th—12th centuries CE.
The Kalb's oldest-known dwelling areas were around Dumat al-Jandal in northwestern Arabia.
Ruins of Palmyra, a principal base of the Kalb between the mid-7th and mid-11th centuries
A Kalbite emir was the original founder of the fortress of Salkhad in the Hauran.
Mu'awiya I
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Mu'awiya I was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and immed
Banu Kalb
…marital ties with the Umayyad family, and the tribe became the military foundation of the Syria-based Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) from the reign of Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) to the early reign of Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). During the Second Muslim Civil War, the Kalb routed its main rival, the Qays, in the…
Sasanian-style silver dirham minted in Mu'awiya's name, c. 674The obverse side shows the portrait of the Sasanian shah Khosrow II (r. 590–628) and his name in the Pahlavi script.
A statue representing Uqba ibn Nafi, the Arab commander who conquered Ifriqiya and founded Kairouan in 670, during Mu'awiya's reign. Uqba served as Mu'awiya's lieutenant governor over North Africa until the caliph dismissed him in 673.