Editing Mu'awiya II (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya II ibn Yazid. AH 64 AD 683-684.jpg|thumb|300px|[[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.]]
It is unclear how Mu'awiya died, although [[jaundice]] and a plague have been named as causes. Since he had no children and either refused<ref name=Tabari/>{{rp|577}} 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.<ref name=Bosworth/>

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 Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali and Umar ibn Abdul-Aziz.<ref>"Parmi les Pôles, il en est dont l'autorité se manifeste et qui détiennent le Califat extérieur, de même qu'en vertu de leur degré spirituel ils détiennent la lieutenance ésotérique. Tel fut le cas de Abû Bakr, de 'Umar, de 'Uthmân, de 'Alî de Al Hasan, de Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan,de Mu'âwiyah Ibn Yazîd, de 'Umar Ibn 'Abd Il 'Azîz et de Al Mutawakkil " (translation: There are Poles whose authority is manifest and who hold foreign Caliphate, and that according to their spiritual degree they hold esoteric authority to. Such was the case with Abû Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthmân, 'Alî, Al Hasan, Mu'âwiyah Ibn Yazîd, Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, 'Umar Ibn 'Abd Il 'Azîz and Al Mutawakkil) ''Le Sceau des Saints'', trans. [[Michel Chodkiewicz]], [[Éditions Gallimard]], Paris 1986, {{pp.|121-122}}.</ref>