The End of the Jihâd State - The Reign of Hish¿m Ibn ¿Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

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

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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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Khalid Yahya Blankinship
• Editore: SUNY Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.06.1994
• EAN: 9780791418284
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1828-4
• Pagine: 412
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Peso: 666 g
• Serie: Suny Medieval Middle East Hist
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni