The boundaries of the Islamic empire pushed past the Oxus in Central Asia, and he is credited with the creation of the diwans, or centralized bureaux of the government.
His rule saw the conquest of Ifriqiyah and Tripolitania and the building of Kairouan as a base from which expansion could be made into modern-day Algeria. The boundaries of the Islamic empire pushed past the Oxus in Central Asia, and he is credited with the creation of the diwans, or centralized bureaux of the government. He was the son of Abu Sufyan, and he may be most important for a trick he played on the caliph Ali, whose simple act of negotiation with this man caused the defection of the khowarij and this man's victory at Siffin. Establishing the new Muslim capital at Damascus, this is, FTP, what first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty
His rule saw the conquest of Ifriqiyah and Tripolitania and the building of Kairouan as a base from which expansion could be made into modern-day Algeria.
{Mu’awiya} ibn Abu Sufyan