Are the Umayyad caliphs of the East. With Muslim historians who are often unjust, those who have the distinction of being the first to promote the development of Islamic civilization. The rulers of this dynasty did not hesitate to exploit any type of talent that possessed his subjects, regardless of their race or religion.
That was how several scholars, poets and administrators, both Christians and Jews, were found very close to the Umayyad caliphs. Through the collaboration of elements of different races and religions in the empire, literature and the arts enjoyed a great period of growth at that time.
The great poets, satirists, Djaran, and Al-Akhtala Farazdak latter Christian, adorned the court of Abdul Malik. The caliph, a patron, was a big fan of architecture and the poet, himself a poet, and ordered the construction of the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem.
From the brilliant reign of his son and successor, Al-Walid, which the Islamic Empire extended to India, to the east, and to Morocco in the west, come these masterpieces of Islamic art: the great Umayyad mosque of Damascus and Mosque in Medina.
