The politics and culture of an Umayyad tribe : conflict and factionalism in the early Islamic period /

"The Umayyad caliphate, ruling over much of what is now the modern Middle East after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, governe from Damascus from 661 to750CE, when they were expelled by the Abbasids. Here, Mohammad Rihan sheds light on the tribal system of this empir, by looking at one of its...

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Main Author: Rihan, Mohammad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Series:Library of Middle East history ; 41.
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