The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the ... - Khalid Yahya Blankinship, Khalid 'A. Blankinship - Google Books

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Stretching from Morocco 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…