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What if the Umayyad forces had been defeated by the pro-Ibn al-Zubayr forces during the Second Islamic Civil War at the Battle of Marj Rahit? Would it be possible for the split between Caliphate to solidify and two competing Caliphates exist one Umayyad ruled Mesopotamia and Persia and the other Zubayrid ruled Arabia and Egypt?