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Stretching from Morooco to China, the Umayyad caliphate based its expansion and success on the doctrine of jihad-armed struggle to claim the whole earth for God's rule, a struggle that had brought much material success for a century but suddenly ground to a halt followed by the collapse of the ruling Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE. The End of the Jihad State demonstrates for the first time that the cause of this collaspe came not just from internal conflicts, as has been claimed, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.
Dr. Khalid Yahya Blankinship's work is a must have for students of Islamic history! It includes:
-A historical look at the meaning of Jihad
-the Madinan State and its expansion beyond Arabia
-the policies of the Umayyad Caliphate
-details of the various battles and wars during the Umayyad Caliphate
-the policies and ideology during the reign of Hisham
-maps, appendixes, and detailed notes
-and much more
Dr. Khalid Blankinship is currently a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa and more of his articles can be found here
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