Talk:Umar ibn AbdulAziz

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During the reign of Caliph Umar II there was a massive land and sea assault by the Caliphate upon the Byzantine Capitol city of Constantinople, led by his brother Maslama. Almost the entire force of men and ships was lost, which totalled somewhere to almost 200,000 men and 2,000 ships. I'm going to put in a link to the Second Arab siege of Constantinople in this article because if it had succeeded, then the Byzantine Empire probably would have crumbled and the Islamic Caliphate would have expanded into the Balkans and Europe 800 years earlier than it did.

--bbcrackmonkey

I've removed this from Rashidun, please add it where apprpriate here.Bless sins 01:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Umar bin Abdul Aziz (Umar ІІ), who was one of the Ummayyad caliphs, is sometimes regarded as one of the Rashidun. This is mostly due to his sheer strict-but-just conduct and peace during his reign that resemebled his grandfather, the second caliph. Muslim tradition recounts many anecdotes of him passed through generations portraying him as a righteous caliph. In one tradition he is ntoed as the The Hezekiah of the Umayyads.