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, 2014 For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!
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Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads’ Silent Heritage
2010The Umayyads left to their successors in the Islamic worldnot only to their successors as rulers of the empire, the ʾAbbāsids, but also to Muslims at largea formidable political, intellectual, and communal legacy. This legacy, however, has often been poorly appreciated. This chapter outlines some of the major initiatives the Umayyads undertook in order
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1983
Cordoba under the Umayyads filled many of the roles of Visigothic Toledo as royal residence, cultural centre and capital. It was, however, less strategically placed as far as the north of the peninsula was concerned, though it should be borne in mind that the Muslim rulers were more often interested in events in North Africa than in those in ...
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Cordoba under the Umayyads filled many of the roles of Visigothic Toledo as royal residence, cultural centre and capital. It was, however, less strategically placed as far as the north of the peninsula was concerned, though it should be borne in mind that the Muslim rulers were more often interested in events in North Africa than in those in ...
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The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock
Muqarnas, 1988archaeological evidence that, during the reigns of the four Orthodox Caliphs and the early Umayyads, a few communal buildings were constructed in the capital Medina and later Damascus, and in the new settlements or garrison towns (amsdr) in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, but we know very little about their plans, structures, and construction materials.
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Between 644 and 750 ce, the Umayyad branch of the Prophet Muhammad’s tribe of Quraysh presided over the expansion of the first Islamic empire. Control over the former lands of Rome and Iran in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent was consolidated, while new conquests were made in North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, Iran, and Central and South Asia.
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