The series takes place in the historical era that spanned across the second half of the Umayyad time and the beginning of the Abbasid caliphate,until Until the era of its actual founder, Abu Jaafar al-Mansur. It also tells developments of events in the Umayyad Caliphate from the reign of the Caliph Omar bin Abdul Aziz until their last successor Marwan bin Mohammed bin Marwan.