Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, ruling…
724 CE to 735 CE
Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, ruling from Damascus, has again encouraged arts in the empire.
He has also encouraged the growth of education by building more schools, and perhaps most importantly, by overseeing the translation of numerous literary and scientific masterpieces into Arabic.
