Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (Arabic: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ٱبْن الزُّبَيْرِ ٱبْن الْعَوَّامِ, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām; May 624 – October/November 692) was the leader of a caliphate based in Mecca that rivaled the Umayyads from 683 until his death. The son of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Asma bint Abi Bakr, and grandson of the first caliph Abu Bakr, Ibn al-Zubayr belonged to the Quraysh, the leading tribe of the nascent Muslim community, and was the first child born to the Muhajirun, Islam's earliest converts. As a youth, he participated in the early Muslim conquests alongside his father in Syria and Egypt, and later played a role in the Muslim conquests of North Africa and northern Iran in 647 and 650, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr has received more than 890,356 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr is the 301st most popular religious figure (up from 317th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Saudi Arabian Religious Figure.

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr was the son of the second caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab. He was a scholar and poet who led a rebellion against the third caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.