Translator's Foreword
Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate of, Mu`awiyah
The Events of the Year 40 (660/661)
The Rendering of Allegiance to al-Hasan b. Ali
The Events of the Year 41 (665/662)
Al-Hasan's surrender of al-Kufah to Mucawiyah
The departure of al-Hasan and al-Husayn for al-Madinah
The Kharijites at Shahrazur
Mucawiyah's order to kill the sons of Ziyad
Why^c Abdallah b.^c Amir was put in charge of al-Basrah and some events during his Activity there
The Events of the Year 42 (662/663)
What happened to the Kharijites
The Events of the Year 43 (663/664)
The killing of al-Mustawrid b.^c Ullifah
The Events of the Year 44 (664/665)
The Events of the Year 45 (665/666)
Ziyad's governorship over al-Basrah
The Events of the Year 46 (666/667)
The death of^c Abd al-Rahman b. Khalid b. al-Walid
The Events of the Year 47 (667/668)
The Events of the Year 48 (668/669)
The Events of the Year 49 (669/670)
The Events of the Year 50 (670/671)
Al-Faradzaq's flight from Ziyad
Al-Hakam b.^c Amr raids al-Ashall
The Events of the Year 51 (671/672)
Hujr b.^c Adi's execution
Those whom Ziyad sent to Mucawiyah
Hujr's companions who were killed
Hujr's companions who were saved
The Events of the Year 52 (672)
The Events of the Year 53 (672/673)
How Ziyad b. Sumayyah perished
How al-Rabi^c b. Ziyad al-Harithi died
The Events of the Year 54 (673/674)
Why Mucawiyah dismissed Sacid and appointed Mawan as governor over al-Madinah
How^c Ubaydallah b. Ziyad became governor over Khurasan
The Events of the Year 55 (/674/675)
Why Mucawiyah dismissed^c Abdallah b.^c Amr b. Ghaylan and appointed^c Ubaydallah over al-Basrah
The Events of the Year 56 (675/676)
Why Mucawiyah made his Son, Yazid, heir apparent
The Events of the Year 57 (676/677)
The Events of the Year 58 (677/678)
Why^c Ubaydallah b. Ziyad killed the Kharijites
The Events of the Year 59 (678/679)
Why Mucawiyah appointed^c Abd al-Rahman b. Ziyad as governor of Khurasan
How Mucawiyah dismissed and re-appointed^c Ubaydallah as governor of al-Basrah
Why Yasid b. Mufarrigh ridiculed the sons of Ziyad
The Events of the Year 60 (679/680)
The length of Mucawiyah's reign
Mucawiyah's last illness
Who led the prayer over Mucawiyah when he died
Mucawiyah's lineage and his Agnomen
Mucawiyah's wives and children
Some of Mucawiyah's Affairs and Conduct
Bibliography
Index

This volume presents for the first time in English ¿abari's complete account of the twenty-year long reign of the fifth caliph, Müawiyah (661-680). The importance of this account lies partly in ¿abari's quotation of major portions of the work of earlier authors, such as Abu Mikhnaf and other eighth-century compilers. It is also significant because ¿abari's selection of themes has had a decisive influence on modern interpretations of this period, particularly on the identification of what the important issues were in the works of Henri Lammens and Julius Wellhausen. Here one can read the exciting account of the Khariji revolt of Mustawrid ibn Ullifah, the impressive but controversial record of the governorship of Ziyad ibn Abihi, the entertaining escapades of the poet Farazdaq in his youth, and the tragic story of ¿ujr ibn 'Adi. ¿abari''s presentation of different points of view about these and other events makes his account an indispensable source for early Islamic history.