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Which city was the capital of the Umayyad caliphs in Spain?
Answer: Córdoba
Why: Granada's Alhambra came later: it was built mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries by the Nasrid dynasty.
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Which caliph sent standard copies of the Quran to major cities?
Answer: Uthman
Why: By Sunni tradition, Uthman's text drew on written sheets of the Quran gathered earlier under Abu Bakr.
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What city served as the Abbasid capital from 836 to 892?
Answer: Samarra
Why: The city's Great Mosque has the Malwiya, a minaret wrapped by a spiral ramp, built around 850.
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Which city did Umayyad armies besiege from 717 to 718?
Answer: Constantinople
Why: The Byzantines set many Umayyad ships ablaze with Greek fire, an incendiary weapon.
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What Sunni university began as a mosque of Shia caliphs?
Answer: Al-Azhar
Why: After Saladin ended Fatimid rule in Egypt in 1171, al-Azhar shed its Ismaili Shia ties and became a Sunni institution.
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Which caliph built the Dome of the Rock?
Answer: Abd al-Malik
Why: Its old nickname 'Mosque of Omar' is a misnomer: Umar took Jerusalem in the 630s, but Abd al-Malik built the Dome.
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