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"...provides the best account now available in English." |o Journal of the American Oriental Society Gerald Hawtings book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the... read more
First Sentence
In the summer or autumn of AD 661, Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan, governor of Syria since 639 and already acclaimed by his Syrian followers as caliph (khalifa), religious and political leader of the Muslim state, entered the Iraqi garrison town of Kufa.
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- G. R. Hawting (Author)
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