page_title: Muawiya II
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Muawiya II / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya II ibn Yazid. AH 64 / AD 683-684. AR Drachm (3.24 g, 3h). Arab-Sasanian type. MRW (Marw) mint; Abd Allah ibn Khazim, governor. Dated AH 64 (AD 683/4). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; bismillah and three pellets in margin; c/m: animal left in incuse / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right.
context_page_description: Muawiya II or Muawiya ibn Yazid succeeded his father Yazid I as the third Umayyad caliph and last caliph of the Sufyanid line. He ruled briefly in 683-684 before he died.
context_section_description: It is unclear how Muawiya died, although jaundice and a plague have been named as causes. Since he had no children and either refused or was not given the opportunity to appoint a successor, the campaigns against Ibn al-Zubayr's revolt came to a complete stop. Umayyad power temporarily collapsed until Marwan I took back control.
  In his al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, Ibn Arabi claimed that Muawiyya II was a spiritual Pole (Ghawth) of his time and one of the few in history having such a spiritual degree combined with a temporal power, like the Rashidun Caliphs and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz.
caption: Umayyad Caliphate coin at the time of Mu'awiya II ibn Yazid. MRW (Marw) mint; "Abd Allah ibn Khazim, governor". Dated AH 64 (AD 683/4). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; bismillah and three pellets in margin; c/m: animal left in incuse/ Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right.
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