Alias:<ALIA> Muawiyah I /Mu'awia/, Mu'awiya ben al-Mughira
According to the Arabic News. com (http://www.araboc
mews/cp,/ansub/Daily/Day/980323/1998032326.html):
"Few world dynasties have produced so many idiosyncratic and agreeable
people as Caliph Yazid and the Umayyad dynasties, who were at the same
time effective. Mu'awia, the first Umayyad Caliph and brother in law to
the prophet Muhammad, secured supreme power over the Arab empire with
Damascus as his capital in 661 AD. He showed his beaten opponents
clemency, and ruled with a wise mixture of tact and strength, pliant when
it was possible and strong when it was necessary. It was charaistically
Umayyad that he should have passed a third of his nights listening to the
history of the Arabs."