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The
History of al-Tabari
volume 2%.Rt
Translated and Annotated
by Michael Fishbein
Volume XXI of the History of al-Tabari (from the
second part of 66
/685
to 73
/
693) covers the resolution
of "the Second Civil War
."
This conflict, which had
broken out in 64/683 after the death of the Umayyad
caliph Yazid 1, involved the rival claims of the Umayyads
(centered in Syria
)
and the Zubayrids
(centered
in the
Hijiz
),
each of whom claimed the caliphal title,
Commander of the Faithful
.
Both parties contended for
control of Iraq, which was also the setting for al-
Mukhtir's Schitite uprising in al-Kufih during 66/685
and 67
/
686. Kharijite groups were active in south-
western Iran and central Arabia
,
even threatening the
heavily settled lands of Iraq
.
By the end of 73
/
692, the
Umayyad regime in Damascus
,
led by
`Abd-al -
Malik, had
extinguished the rival caliphate of Ibn al-Zubayr and had
reestablished a single
,
more or less universally ac-
knowledged political authority for the Islamic community.
AI-Tabari s account of these years is drawn from such
earlier historians as Abu Mikhnaf
,
al-Mada ini, and al-
Wigidi and includes eyewitness accounts
,
quotations
from poems
,
and texts of sermons
.
Notable episodes
include al
-
Mukhtai s slaying of those who had been
involved in the death of al-Husayn at Karbala, the
death of al
-
Mukhtar at the hands of Mt ab b. al
-Zubayr,
the revolt of cAmr b. Said in Damascus
,
the death of
Mus`ab at the Battle of Dayr al Jathaliq, and al
-Hajjij's
siege and conquest of Mecca on behalf of `Abd-al
-
Malik.
There are excursuses on the chair that al-Mukhtar
venerated as a relic of tAli, the biography of the colorful
brigand `Ubaydallah b. al-Hurr
,
and the development of
the secretarial office in Islam.
The translation has been fully annotated
.
Parallels in the
works of Ibn Sa'd, al
-
Baladhuri
,
and the
Kitr bal-
Aghini
have been indicated in the notes where these
accounts supplement or diverge from that of al-Tabari.
SUNY
Series in Near Eastern Studies
Said Amir Arjomand, Editor
ISBN 0-7914-0222-3
90000
9
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THE HISTORY OF AL-TABARI
AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
VOLUME XXI
The Victory of the Marwdnids
A.D. 685-693/A.H. 66-73
0
The History
of al-Tabari
Editorial
Board
Ihsan Abbas, University of Jordan, Amman
C. E. Bosworth, The University of Manchester
Franz Rosenthal, Yale University
Ehsan Yar-Shater, Columbia University
(General Editor)
SUNY
SERIES IN NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Said Amir Arjomand, Editor
0
The preparation of this volume was made possible in part by a
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an
independent federal agency.

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