Later, Horovitz sums up his belief that al-Kumayt had conflicting poetry by saying, “al-Kumayt was capable of composing eulogies simultaneously to the 'Alids and the Umayyads.”
The Umayyads fell to the Abbasid Caliphate and the surviving member of the Umayyad Dynasty, Abd ar-Rahman I, fled to Córdoba.
The First Fitna (656–661 CE) the first Islamic "civil war" between Ali and the Umayyads
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The Second Fitna (c. 680/683–c. 685/692 CE), the second Islamic "civil war" between the Umayyads and Ibn al-Zubayr