Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham (705-737) was a general of the Umayyad Caliphate and the son of Caliph Hisham.
Biography[]
Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham was born in 705, the son of Caliph Hisham. He was a Sunni Muslim Bedouin of the House of Umayyad, and he served as a general of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Arab-Byzantine Wars. In 725 he campaigned against the Byzantine Empire while Maymun ibn Mihran launched a naval attack on Cyprus, and his army reached as far as Dorylaeum in Asia Minor (Turkey), capturing several prisoners and sacking several forts. In 727 he led a failed siege of Nicaea with Abdallah al-Battal, and he continued to lead raids into the Byzantine Empire until his death from falling from his horse during a hunt in 737.