Muʻawiya Ibn Abi Sufyan : from Arabia to empire / R. Stephen Humphreys.
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Oxford, England :
Oneworld,
2006.
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| Series: | Makers of the Muslim world.
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Table of Contents:
- 1The Problem of Mu'awiya 1
- Mu'awiya in the eyes of later Muslims 3
- How do we know what we claim to know: the sources for Mu'awiya's life 10
- Mu'awiya's career: a chronological sketch 19
- 2The First Three Decades (600-632) 23
- The Meccan milieu 23
- The politics of genealogy: why Mu'awiya's ancestry is important 28
- The lineage of Mu'awiya 30
- The Banu Umayya 31
- The descendants, of 'Abd Manaf: the clans of 'Abd Shams and Hashim 33
- 3 Laying the Foundations of Power: Mu'awiya as Master of Syria (632-656) 43
- Mu'awiya and the conquest of Syria 43
- Mu'awiya becomes Governor 45
- The war against Byzantium 50
- The war at sea: creating the Muslim navy 53
- The war in Anatolia and Armenia 58
- Mu'awiya and the Arab tribes in Syria 60
- 4 The First Civil War and Mu'awiya's Rise to Power (656-661) 65
- The revolt against 'Uthman 65
- The aftermath: who can claim the right to rule? 71
- The confrontation between 'Ali and Mu'awiya 77
- 5 Commander of the Faithful (661-680) 85
- The war against Byzantium renewed 104
- 6The Prince of our Disorder: Mu'awiya as a Symbol of Cultural Tension 115.