The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the UmayyadsState University of New York Press, 1994 M06 28 - 399 pages Stretching from Morocco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad--armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE. The End of the Jihad State demonstrates for the first time that the cause of this collapse came not just from internal conflict, as has been claimed, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond. |
Contents
Jihad and the Caliphate before Hishām | 11 |
Administrative Geography and Tribal Identity | 37 |
The Individual Provinces of the Caliphate | 47 |
Administrative Policies and Ideology | 77 |
Ideological Centralization | 92 |
The External Strategic Situation in 105724102 | 102 |
The Khazar Khanate | 108 |
Nubia and Abyssinia | 114 |
Sijistān 1152573343 | 185 |
Egypt 1152273340192 | 192 |
The Collapse of the Expansion Policy | 199 |
The Beginning of the Revolt 1222374041 | 206 |
The North African Governorship of Hanzala b Şafwān | 213 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Maps | 237 |
Sources for the Reign of Hisham | 247 |
Sijistān 1050872427129 | 129 |
Egypt 1051172429135 | 135 |
The Climax of the Military Crisis | 145 |
Transoxiana and Khurāsān 1111573033155 | 155 |
The Byzantine Front 1121473032162 | 162 |
The Caucasus Front 1152373341 | 170 |
Transoxiana and Khurasan 1152373341 | 176 |
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