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End of the Jihad State: Reign of Hisham Ibn ’Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

By Khalid Yahya Blankinship

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0791418278, 9780791418277
LCC
DS38.5 .B58 1994
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
731 kB (748250 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History
Pages
399\0
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad--armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God’s rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE. The End of the Jihad State demonstrates for the first time that the cause of this collapse came not just from internal conflict, as has been claimed, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate’s capacity to respond.

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