The End of the Jihâd State - The Reign of Hishām Ibn ʿabd Al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

Demonstrates for the first time that the cause of the Umayyad caliphate's collapse came not just from internal conflict, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.

About the author

Khalid Yahya Blankinship is Assistant Professor of Religion at Temple University. He is the translator of Volumes 11 and 25 of the History of al-Tabari, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Khalid Yahya Blankinship
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1994
• EAN: 9780791418284
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1828-4
• No. of pages: 399
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Suny Medieval Middle East Hist
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous