Caliph Muawiyah b. Abu Sufyan MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Caliph Muawiyah b. Abu Sufyan? Caliph Muawiyah b. Abu Sufyan is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - so/sp - in Enneagram, SCOEN in Big 5, SLE in Socionics.
A crafty Beta ST Indeed, it is a great paradox that the Abu Sufyan lineage has seized power.
Biography
The sixth Caliph of Islam and a companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, he is considered the founder of the Umayyad dynasty. Muawiyah I (Arabic: معاوية بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; c. 597, 603 or 605–April 680. He became caliph less than 30 years following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and very shortly after the reign of the four "rightly guided" (Rashidun) caliphs. Muawiyah and his father Abu Sufyan had opposed Muhammad, their distant Qurayshite kinsman, until the latter captured Mecca in 630, after which Muawiyah became one of Muhammad's scribes. He was appointed by Caliph Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) the commander of the vanguard of his brother Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan's army during the conquest of Syria and he moved up the ranks until becoming governor of Syria during the reign of Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). He allied with the province's powerful Banu Kalb tribe, developed the defenses of its coastal cities and directed the war efforts against the Byzantine Empire, including the first Muslim naval campaigns. After Uthman's assassination in 656, Muawiyah took up the cause of avenging the caliph and opposed his successor, Ali. During the First Muslim Civil War, the two led their armies to a stalemate at the Battle of Siffin in 657, prompting an abortive series of arbitration talks to settle the war. Afterward, Muawiyah gained recognition as caliph by his Syrian supporters and his ally Amr ibn al-As, who conquered Egypt from Ali's governor in 658. After the assassination of Ali in 661, his son and successor Hasan abdicated in Kufa and Muawiyah's suzerainty was acknowledged throughout the Caliphate.
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