Book Title | History Of The Umayyad Caliphs |
Book Author | İmam Suyuti |
Total Pages | 58 |
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Language | English |
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History Of the Umayyad Caliphs, From Tarikh Al Khulafa by Jalal Ad Din As Suyuti
HISTORY OF THE UMAYYAD CALIPHS
That was a community that has long since passed away. It has what it earned. You have what you have earned. You will not be questioned about what they did. (Surat al-Baqara 2:134) The Messenger of Allah said, “The leaders (imams) are from Quraysh.”
Thus al-Khulafā” ar-Rāshidūn, the Umayyads, and the ‘Abbasids were a single seamless Qurayshi dynasty until the Mongols extirpated that line, although a small rump caliphate was to endure in Cairo under the Mamluks until the time of our author, Jalal ad-Din as-Suyüti, may Allah be merciful to him.
That Quraysh was to succumb for a period to internal rivalries, with the Abbasid revolt against the Umayyads, was inevitable from the perspective of Ibn Khaldün. That their history has subsequently been interpreted, not least by Abbasid scholars, as two entirely contrary dynasties has not served us well.
That it was necessary for them, for the Abbasid revolution (dawla) to succeed and to endure, to vilify the Umayyads has not made the work of the historian any easier.
In these pages, if the reader is of the ‘good men/bad men’ view of the world, he will discover not embodiments of evil, but good men who sometimes did bad things, as well as bad men who sometimes did good things.
As to the latter, the Umayyad general al-Hajjaj ibn Yüsuf is one of the most notorious governors in the history of the
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