The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

Khalid Yahya Blankinship, Khalid 'A. Blankinship

SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1994 - History - 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

• III: 1
• IV: 4
• V: 11
• VI: 19
• VII: 21
• VIII: 23
• IX: 24
• X: 26
• XI: 28
• XII: 31
• XIII: 34
• XIV: 37
• XV: 42
• XVI: 47
• XVII: 50
• XVIII: 57
• XIX: 67
• XX: 73
• XXI: 77
• XXII: 79
• XXIII: 81
• XXIV: 92
• XXV: 97
• XXVI: 102
• XXVII: 104
• XXVIII: 106
• XXIX: 108
• XXX: 109
• XXXI: 110
• XXXIII: 112
• XXXIV: 113
• XXXV: 114
• XXXVI: 117
• XXXVII: 121
• XXXVIII: 129
• XXXIX: 131
• XL: 136
• XLI: 140
• XLII: 145
• XLIII: 146
• XLIV: 147
• XLV: 149
• XLVI: 163
• XLVII: 165
• XLVIII: 167
• XLIX: 168
• L: 170
• LI: 176
• LII: 185
• LIII: 186
• LIV: 190
• LV: 192
• LVI: 193
• LVII: 196
• LVIII: 199
• LIX: 200
• LX: 202
• LXI: 203
• LXII: 204
• LXIII: 206
• LXIV: 208
• LXV: 209
• LXVI: 213
• LXVII: 218
• LXVIII: 223
• LXIX: 225
• LXX: 230
• LXXI: 237
• LXXII: 247
• LXXIII: 251
• LXXIV: 254
• LXXV: 257
• LXXVI: 258
• LXXVII: 265
• LXXVIII: 267
• LXXIX: 270
• LXXX: 273
• LXXXI: 275
• LXXXII: 279
• LXXXIII: 353
• LXXXIV: 369
• LXXXV: 395

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads; SUNY series in medieval Middle East history; Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society
• Authors: Khalid Yahya Blankinship, Khalid 'A. Blankinship
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0791418278, 9780791418277
• Length: 399 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Middle East / General; History / World