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In this volume, which covers the caliphates of Sulaymān, ʿUmar II, and Yazīd II, al-Ṭabarī provides vivid and detailed accounts of the events spanning the period from 97-105/715-724. We listen to the stirring speeches of Qutaybah ibn Muslim, in which he urges his followers to renounce their allegiance to Sulaymān; are present at the disastrous third and final attempt to take Constantinople; watch from behind the scenes as Rajaʾ ibn Ḥaywah skillfully engineers the accession of 'Umar II; and follow the remarkable career of Yazīd b. al-Muhallab, first as governor and conqueror, then as prisoner, and finally as rebel.
Throughout this volume we observe the struggle of the Umayyad regime to maintain control over a rapidly expanding but increasingly dissatisfied subject population. Governors are appointed and dismissed with dizzying rapidity, administrative boundaries are drawn and redrawn, Arab tribesmen express dissatisfaction with the diminishing rewards of military conquest, non-Arab converts chafe at the differential treatment they receive, and religious opponents revolt in the name of "the Book and the Sunnah." Important in their own right, the events of this period provide an essential key to a proper understanding of the 'Abbasid revolution that lay just over the horizon.
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Preface
Abbreviations
Translator's Foreword
The Caliphate of Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik
The Events of the Year 96 (cont'd) (714/715)
The Slaying of Qutaybah b. Muslim
The Events of the Year 97 (715/716)
The Appointment of Yazid b. al-Muhallab as Governor of Khurasan
The Events of the Year 98 (716/717)
Maslamah b. 'Abd al-Malik Besieges Constantinople
[The Conquest of Jurjan and Tabaristan]
The Events of the Year 99 (717/718)
[The Death of Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik]
Aspects of His Character
The Caliphate of 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz
The Events of the Year 99 (cont'd) (717/718)
The Reason Why Sulayman 'Appointed 'Umar as Caliph
The Events of the Year 100 (718/719)
The Revolt of the Kharijites
The Capture of Yazid b/ al-Muhallab
The Dismissal of al-Jarrah b. 'Abdallah
'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz Appoints 'Abd al-Rahman b.Nu'aym and 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Abdallah al-Qushayri over Khurasan
The Beginning of the Da'wah
The Events of the Year 101 (719/720)
The Escape of Yazid b. al-Muhallab
[The Death of 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz]
Aspects of His Character
A Supplement to the Biography of 'Umar b. 'Abdal-'Aziz That Is Not Part of Abu Ja'far's [al-Tabari's] Book, to the Beginning of the Caliphate of Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan
The Caliphate of Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan
The Events of the Year 101 (cont'd) (719/720)
The Slaying of Shawdhab the Kharijite
Yazid b. al-Muhallab Renounces His Allegiance to Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik
The Events of the Year 102 (720/721)
The Slaying of Yazid b. al-Muhallab
Maslamah Appoints Sa'id Khudhaynah as Governor of Khurasan
Sa'id's Dismissal of Shu'bah and the Battle at the Fortress of a.-Bahili
Sa'id Khudhaynah's Military Expedition against the Soghdians
The Dismissal of Maslamah from Iraq and Khurasan
The Slaying of Yazid b. Abi Muslim
The Events of the Year 103 (721/ 722)
The Dismissal of Sa'id Khudhaynah as Governor of Khurasan
'Umar b. Hubayrah's Appointment of Sa'id al-Harashi as Governor of Khurasan
The Sogdians Leave Their Country for Farghanah
The Events of the Year 104 (722/723)
The Battle between al-Harashi and the Soghdian Army
Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik's Dismissal of 'Abdal-Rahman b. al-Dahhak from Medina
'Umar b. Hubayrah's Dismissal of Sa'id b. 'Amral-Harashi as Governor of Khurasan
The Appointment of Muslim b. Sa'id as Governor of Khurasan
The Events of the Year 105 (723/724)
Muslim b. Sa'id's Expedition against the Turks
The Death of Yazid b. 'Abd al-Malik
Aspects of His Character
Bibliography of Cited Works
Index