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This quantity chronicles the background of the Islamic nation within the years A. H. 74-81 (A. D. 693-701), after the ultimate defeat of Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca placed an finish to 12 years of civil warfare and reunited the empire lower than the rule of thumb of the Marwanid caliph 'Abd al-Malik. Syria and the Hijaz loved a interval of relative peace in this time, and balance and consolidation have been furthered through such easy administrative reforms because the establishment of an reputable Islamic coinage. Pacification of Iraq, the place Kharijite insurgent bands nonetheless roamed and mutiny was once spreading one of the govt forces, used to be entrusted via 'Abd al-Malik to the triumphant normal al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf. Al-Tabari provides a close account of this iron-fisted governor's management, focusing on his struggle opposed to the redoubtable Shabib b. Yazid, a Kharijite guerilla chief with a band of some hundred males who held out opposed to all odds and two times even entered the capital at al-Kufah and prayed in its mosque. shiny eyewitness experiences from members on each side of this clash supply a useful photo of Arab lifestyles in Iraq at the present, in addition to proof for the ideology of the Kharijites and the resources of discontent within the wider society.
Attention can be given to advancements within the frontier provinces of the east, finally additionally put less than the authority of al-Hajjaj. In Khurasan, the vicious tribal feuds that had interrupted the coverage of endured conquest have been steadily resolved and campaigning resumed. In Sijistan, a crushing defeat of Arab troops led al-Hajjaj to outfit the "Peacock Army," a strength of exceptional measurement and impressiveness, which, whilst it rebelled lower than its chief, Ibn al-Ash'ath, used to be to supply the governor the gravest problem of his profession.
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For the phrase, see Maydani, Amthdl, II, r91. The Events of the Year 75 15 Then he went into his residence, without saying anything more. Another account : When al-Hajjaj stood a long time silently before speaking, Muhammad b. 'Umayr64 took some pebbles and was going to pelt him with them, saying, "May God oppose him! " But when al -Hajjaj spoke, the pebbles began to spill from his hands without his even noticing. "65 You are like them, just the same! Obey your herdsman, and go straight, for, by God, I will make you taste abasement until you learn how, and hack you as one does a mimosa until you consent to be led .
71. Mubarrad glosses ziyam as (the name of) a horse or camel. 72. ) for Abu Said al-Agma'i, the famous philologist, d. v. al-Agma'i), perhaps conflated here with his contemporary , Abu Zayd alAnsiri, d. v. Abu Zayd al-Ansiri ). The following verse is by Abu Du 'id al-Ru 'asi, H . c. v. 'ulut. 73. Verse by al-Nibighah al-Dhubyini , d. c. 602 A. ; Mubarrad, Kdmil, 376; W. Ahlwardt, The Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets (London, 1870), 30. The Events of the Year 75 17 whom they frighten by rattling an old waterskin at its rump.
For the verse (with variant), see Die Hd9imijjat des Kumait , ed. and trans. 1. Horovitz (Leiden, 19o41, no. III, line 123. 77. Verse by Imru' al-Qays, d. c. D. 5 5o; see E12, s. v. Imru' al-Qays b . Hudjr. The verse, with variants, is in Ahlwardt, Divans, i 18. 78. D. c. 213 (8281; see Elt, s. v. al-Shaibini. 1 8 The Marwanid Restoration common people call "Satan's snot," that is, the "sun's drool" or gossamer, which appears at midday. Abu al-Najm al'Ij1179 said: The sun's drool flowed and covered things, and the balance of time stood in equilibrium.