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Key facts
- Reign
- 6 February 743 – 17 April 744 (1 year)
- Predecessor
- Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
- Successor
- Yazid ibn al-Walid
- Born
- c. 709 , al-Sham , Umayyad Caliphate
- Died
- 17 April 744 (aged 35), al-Sham , Umayyad Caliphate (present-day Jordan ) , Cause of death: Assassination
- Spouse
- Atika bint Uthman ibn Muhammad, Nawwar
- Issue
- Al-Hakam ibn Al-Walid ibn Yazid Uthman ibn Al-Walid ibn Yazid
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Waleed
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Syria
- Father
- Yazid II
- Sibling
- Al-Ghamr ibn Yazid
- Occupation
- caliph
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Family
- Umayyad dynasty
- Image
- Umayyad fresco of Prince (future caliph) Walid bin Yazid.jpg
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- Al-Walid II
- date of birth
- 0700-00-00
- date of death
- 0744-00-00
- medical condition
- arachnodactyly
- name in native language
- الوليد بن يزيد
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Encyclopedic overview
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Al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: الْوَلِيد بْنِ يَزِيد بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِك, romanized: Al-Walīd ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; 709 – 17 April 744), commonly known as al-Walid II, was the eleventh Umayyad caliph, ruling from 743 until his assassination in 744. He succeeded his uncle, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Walid II” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.