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Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan was an Umayyad caliph who reigned from 685 to 705. He reunited the caliphate after a period of civil war, made Arabic the language of administration and introduced a distinctively Islamic gold and silver coinage. He also commissioned the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and his reforms gave the Umayyad Caliphate much of its lasting governmental structure.
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