The History of al-Ṭabarī v22 The Marwānid Restoration - The Caliphate of `Abd al-Malik AD 693-701 AH 74-81.pdf

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TRANSLATED BY EVERETT K. ROWSON
The Marwanid Restoration
Volume XXII
Translated by Everett K. Rowson
This volume chronicles the history of the Islamic state in
the years A. H. 74-81 (A. D. 693-701), after the final
defeat of Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca put an end to twelve
years of civil war and reunited the empire under the rule
of the Marwanid caliph CAbd al-Malik. Syria and the
Hijaz enjoyed a period of relative peace during this time,
and stability and consolidation were furthered by such
basic administrative reforms as the institution of an
official Islamic coinage. Pacification of Iraq, where
Kharijite rebel bands still roamed and mutiny was
spreading among the government forces, was entrusted
by cAbd al-Malik to the victorious general al-Hajjaj b.
Yusuf. Al-Tabari gives a detailed account of this iron-
fisted governor's administration, concentrating on his
war against the redoubtable Shabib b. Yazid, a Kharijite
guerilla leader with a band of a few hundred men who
held out against all odds and twice even entered the
capital at al-Kufah and prayed in its mosque. Vivid
eyewitness reports from participants on both sides of
this conflict provide a valuable picture of Arab life in Iraq
at this time
, as well
as evidence for the ideology of the
Kharijites and the sources of discontent in the wider
society.
Attention is also given to developments in the frontier
provinces of the east, eventually also placed under the
authority of al-Hajjaj. In Khurasan, the vicious tribal
feuds that had interrupted the policy of continued
conquest were gradually resolved and campaigning
resumed. In Sijistan, a crushing defeat of Arab troops led
al-Hajjaj to outfit the "Peacock Army," a force of
unprecedented size and impressiveness, which, when it
rebelled under its leader, Ibn al-Ashcath, was to offer the
governor the gravest challenge of his career.
SUNY Series
in Near Eastern Studies
Said Amir
Arjomand
,
Editor
ISBN
0-88706-976-2
90000
9
780887
State
University of New York Press
THE HISTORY OF AL
-TABARI
AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
VOLUME XXII
The Marwanid Restoration
THE CALIPHATE OF `ABD AL-MALIK
A.D. 693
-701/A.
H.74-81
1b
The History
of al-Tabari
Editorial Board
Ihsan Abbas, University of Jordan, Amman
C. E. Bosworth, The University of Manchester
Jacob Lassner, Wayne State University, Detroit
Franz
Rosenthal, Yale University
Ehsan Yar-Shater, Columbia University
(General Editor)
SUNY
SERIES IN NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Said Amir Arjomand, Editor
The general editor acknowledges with gratitude the support
received for the execution of this project from the Division
of Research Programs, Translations Division of the National
Endowment for the Humanities
,
an independent federal
agency.
Bibliotheca Persica
Edited by Ehsan Yar-Shater
The History
of al-Tabari
(Ta'rikh al-rusul wa l-muluk)
VOLUME XXII
The Marwanid
Restoration
translated and annotated
by
Everett K.
Rowson
Harvard University
State University of New York Press

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