The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

By Khalid Yahya Blankinship

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791418286
• ISBN13: 9780791418284
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher