The First Dynasty of Islam : The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750

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Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Conventions......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 10 Glossary......Page 12 Figures and Maps......Page 14 Foreword to the Second Edition......Page 20 Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 22 Introduction: The Importance of the Umayyad Period and its Place in Islamic History......Page 24 Arabisation......Page 32 The Umayyads in Muslim Tradition......Page 34 The Umayyad Family and its Rise to the Caliphate......Page 44 Mu'awiya's Acquisition of the Caliphate......Page 47 The Sufyanids......Page 57 Events and Personalities of the Sufyanid Period......Page 63 The Second Civil War......Page 69 'Abd al-Malik and al-Hajjaj......Page 81 Changes in Government and Administration......Page 84 Al-Hajjaj in Iraq......Page 89 The Development of Factionalism and the Problems of Islamisation......Page 95 The Family of al-Muhallab and the Development of Factionalism......Page 96 'Umar II and the Mawali......Page 99 Hisham and Khalid al-Qasri......Page 104 The Third Civil War and the Caliphate of Marwan II......Page 113 Yazid III......Page 117 Marwan II......Page 119 The Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate......Page 127 The Muslims of Khurasan......Page 128 The Army......Page 130 The 'Abbasids and the Hashimiyya......Page 132 The Umayyad Collapse......Page 138 A Note on the Sources......Page 143 Modern Developments in the Study of and Attitudes to Umayyad History......Page 146 Bibliographical Postscript to the Second Edition......Page 152 Bibliography......Page 162 Index......Page 168