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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Conventions
Abbreviations
Glossary
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Importance of the Umayyad Period and its Place in Islamic History
Islamisation
Arabisation
The Umayyads in Muslim Tradition
Notes
Chapter 2: The Umayyad Family and its Rise to the Caliphate
The Background of the Umayyads
Mu‘awiya’s Acquisition of the Caliphate
Notes
Chapter 3: The Sufyanids
Organisation and Administration of the Caliphate
Events and Personalities of the Sufyanid Period
Notes
Chapter 4: The Second Civil War
Notes
Chapter 5: ‘Abd al-Malik and al-Hajjaj
Changes in Government and Administration
Al-Hajjaj in Iraq
Notes
Chapter 6: The Development of Factionalism and the Problems of Islamisation
The Family of al-Muhallab and the Development of Factionalism
‘Umar II and the Mawali
Hisham and Khalid al-Qasri
Notes
Chapter 7: The Third Civil War and the Caliphate of Marwan II
Walid II
Yazid III
Marwan II
Notes
Chapter 8: The Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate
The Muslims of Khurasan
The Army
The ‘Abbasids and the Hashimiyya
The Umayyad Collapse
Notes
Appendix 1
A Note on the Sources
Appendix 2
Modern Developments in the Study of and Attitudes to Umayyad History
Bibliographical Postscript to the Second Edition
Developments concerning the sources
Aspects of this history of the Umayyad period
Bibliography
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