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

by Hawting,G. R

• ISBN13: 9780415240734
• ISBN10: 0415240735
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-09-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"...provides the best account now available in English." -- Journal of the American Oriental Society Gerald Hawtings book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a new Introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field.

Author Biography

G. R. Hawting is Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

Conventions	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Glossary	xi
Figures and Maps	xiii
Foreword to the Second Edition	xix
Preface and Acknowledgements	xxi
Introduction: The Importance of the Umayyad Period and its Place in Islamic History	1	(20)
Islamisation	1	(8)
Arabisation	9	(2)
The Umayyads in Muslim Tradition	11	(10)
The Umayyad Family and its Rise to the Caliphate	21	(13)
The Background of the Umayyads	21	(3)
Mu`awiya's Acquisition of the Caliphate	24	(10)
The Sufyanids	34	(12)
Organisation and Administration of the Caliphate	34	(6)
Events and Personalities of the Sufyanid Period	40	(6)
The Second Civil War	46	(12)
`Abd al-Malik and al-Hajjaj	58	(14)
Changes in Government and Administration	61	(5)
Al-Hajjaj in Iraq	66	(6)
The Development of Factionalism and the Problems of Islamisation	72	(18)
The Family of al-Muhallab and the Development of Factionalism	73	(3)
`Umar II and the Mawali	76	(5)
Hisham and Khalid al-Qasri	81	(9)
The Third Civil War and the Caliphate of Marwan II	90	(14)
Walid II	90	(4)
Yazid III	94	(2)
Marwan II	96	(8)
The Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate	104	(16)
The Muslims of Khurasan	105	(2)
The Army	107	(2)
The `Abbasids and the Hashimiyya	109	(6)
The Umayyad Collapse	115	(5)
Appendix 1 A Note on the Sources	120	(3)
Appendix 2 Modern Developments in the Study of and Attitudes to Umayyad History	123	(6)
Bibliographical Postscript to the Second Edition	129	(10)
Bibliography	139	(6)
Index	145