Muhammad al-Tabari: Caliphate of Yazid Year: 900s

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Muhammad al-Tabari:Caliphate of YazidYEAR: 900s

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Abstract

In this year, the oath of allegiance as caliph was given to Mu‘wiyah b. Yazid b Mu‘awiyah b. Abi Sufyan in Syria, and to ‘Abdallah b. al-Zubayr in the Hijaz. When Yazid b Mu‘awiyah died, al-Husayn b. Numayr and the Syrians continued fighting against Ibn al-Zubayr and his companions in Mecca—according to Hisham‘s report from ‘Awanah—for forty days. The Syrians had strenuously besieged Ibn al-Zubayr and his men and blockaded them. Then news of Yazid‘s death reached Ibn al-Zubayr and his companions, but not al-Husayn b. Numayr and his.

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