Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Conventions; Abbreviations; Glossary; Figures and Maps; Foreword to the Second Edition; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Importance of the Umayyad Period and its Place in Islamic History; Arabisation; The Umayyads in Muslim Tradition; The Umayyad Family and its Rise to the Caliphate; Mu'awiya's Acquisition of the Caliphate; The Sufyanids; Events and Personalities of the Sufyanid Period; The Second Civil War; 'Abd al-Malik and al-Hajjaj; Changes in Government and Administration; Al-Hajjaj in Iraq.
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The standard work on this complex period in Arab history is available once again with the addition of a new introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field.