Person
Al-Walid I
Umayyad caliph
Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik or Al-Walid I (668 – 23 February 715) is an Umayyad caliph who rules from 705 to his death in 715.
His reign sees the greatest expansion of the Caliphate, as successful campaigns are undertaken in Transoxiana, Sind, Hispania and against the Byzantines.