Ruler · 691 – 743

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik

Lived 691 – 743; politician. Umayyad Caliph of Umayyad Caliphate, 724 – 743.

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Lived: 691 – 743; 52 years
In office: 19 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Umayyad Caliphate
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Umayyad Caliph

Umayyad Caliphate · the 10th of 14 dated reigns · 661 – 750

6 before

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik715 – 717

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz717 – 720

Yazid II720 – 724

Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik724 – 743

Al-Walid II743 – 744

Yazid III744

Ibrahim ibn al-Walid744

1 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officethis entry

Reigned 724 – 743 · 19 years · came to it aged 33

Came to it: inheritedthe sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; diphtheria

Hisham succeeded his brother Yazid II and presided over one of the longest reigns of the Umayyad Caliphate.

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