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686, Mukhtar and his supporters were slain by the Zubayrids in April 687 following a series of battles. Under Marwan, the Umayyads consolidated their control of Syria and retook Egypt from the Zubayrids. Under his successor Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyads reconquered Iraq after defeating the Zubayrids at the Battle of Maskin in 691 and reasserted

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