| However, the anti-Umayyad feeling was very prevalent, especially in and | SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies |
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| Some have referenced that his mother was already pregnant with Marwan before his legal father, Muhammad, bed her, thus making the child not his | Fighting continued throughout Khurasan with the Abbasids gaining increasing ascendency |
| The had gained much support | Albany, New York: State University of New York Press |
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| Die koptische Kirche in den ersten drei islamischen Jahrhunderten | Marwan's father, , who was the son of the fourth Umayyad Caliph r |
As such, Marwan's reign as caliph was almost entirely devoted to trying to keep the Umayyad empire together.
5| In 744-745, on hearing news of the plot to overthrow , Marwan wrote to his relatives from Armenia strongly discouraging this | In addition, Abbasid envoys arrived |
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| , "A Short History of the Saracens", Macmillan and co | Marwan suffered a decisive defeat by on the banks of the , called |
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