The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 26: The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate: Prelude to Revolution A.D. 738-745/A.H. 121-127State University of New York Press, 29 июн. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 328 The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since 661/41. After the death of the caliph Hishām in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of the Umayyad power--the ruling family itself--was swift and devastating. Three Umayyad caliphs (al-Walīd II, Yazīd III, and Ibrahim) followed Hishām within little more than a year, and the subsequent intervention of their distant cousin Marwān b. Muhammad (the future Marwān II) could not arrest the forces of opposition that were shortly to culminate in the ʿAbbāsid Revolution of 750/132. In this volume al-Ṭabarī deals extensively with the end of Hishām's reign, providing a rich store of anecdotes on this most able of Umayyad caliphs. He also covers in depth the notorious lifestyle of al-Walīd II, the libertine prince and poet, whose career has attracted much scholarly attention in recent years. Moreover, al-Ṭabarī chronicles at great length the events of the rebellion and death of the Shi'ite pretender, Zayd ibn ʿAlī, at al-Kūfah, as well as recording in detail the activities farther to the east, where Naṣr ibn Sayyār was serving as the last Umayyad governor of Transoxiana and Khurasan, the very area from which the ʿAbbāsid Revolution was to spring. The text also contains several official letters which shed much light on Umayyad propaganda and on early Islamic epistolary style. The hindsight conferred by subsequent centuries highlights the full significance of these half-dozen years or so. Al-Ṭabarī documents the incubation of the ʿAbbāsid Revolution, an event of great importance in world history, and traces the failure of the principal Shi'ite revolt of the eighth century, a debacle which was also to have serious repercussions, for it generated the foundation of Zaydi principalities in Iran and the Yemen. Yet even these major themes are secondary to the epic tale that al-Ṭabarī unfolds of the tragic downfall of the first dynasty in Islam. |
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The Events of the Year 121 738739 | 3 |
The Raids of Nasr b Sayyar | 24 |
The Events of the Year 122 739740 | 36 |
The Events of the Year 123 740741 | 56 |
The Reason for Yusufs Request and the Outcome of It | 58 |
The Events of the Year 124 741742 | 66 |
Some Biographical Details about Hishām | 72 |
The Events of the Year 125 contd 742743 | 87 |
The Killing of Khālid alQasrī and the Reason for It | 166 |
The Events of the Year 126 contd 743744 | 183 |
The Rebellion of the People of Palestine and Jordan and | 189 |
The Dismissal of Yusuf b Umar and the Appointment | 196 |
The Text of Marwans Letter to alGhamr | 214 |
The Reason for Granting SafeConduct to alḤarith | 235 |
The Events of the Year 127 744745 | 249 |
The Account of the Affair of alHarith and Naṣr after alḤärith | 263 |
What Transpired between Yusuf and Naṣr in the Matter | 116 |
The Events of the Year 126 743744 | 126 |
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