History of the Umayyad Caliphs
DESCRIPTION:
History of the Umayyad Caliphs: Tarikh Al-Khulafa
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti
English Translation By Tobias Sahl Anderson (Director of Studies MFAS, Edinburgh)
Paperback 108 Pages
ISBN: 9781842001561
Publisher: Ta-Ha Publishers, London
About The Book
Tarikh al-Khulafa is justly famous in Arabic, and rarely out of print. In the original, it comprises the histories of all those who have been named as Khulafa right up to the age in which as-Suyuti himself lived. For this volume, Ta-Ha follows up The Khalifahs who took the right way with this volume on the Umayyad Caliphs.
Includes
Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan
Yazin bin Muawiya Abu Khalid al-Umawi
Muawiya bin Yazid
Abd Allah ibn az- Zubayr
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik
Ibrahim ibn Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan
Author The Author
Imam Jalal al-Din al-Misri al-Suyuti al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari, also known as Ibn al-Asyuti 849-911AH /1445-1505),, the Mujtahid imam and renewer of the tenth Islamic century, foremost hadith master, encyclopedist, historian, and biographer and probably one of the most prolific of all Islamic writers. There is an enormous number of his essays and treatises preserved today. A number of his writings concerned scientific topics or issues related to natural science and food and regimen, amongst other things.
From Asyut in Egypt,he was among the most renowned and prolific Muslim scholars of all time. He wrote more than 300 books, covering every aspect of the Islamic sciences. He memorized the Qur’an at the age of ‘eight, and then went on to study with more than 150 scholars. He travelled extensively in his quest for knowledge — to Damascus, Hijaz, Yemen, India, Morocco, and the lands south of Morocco, as well as in Egypt.
Al-Suyuti devoted his life to learning, teaching, and writing. He was noble, abstinent, and self-sufficient, distancing himself from people of rank and power and living on what he earned by teaching. Major writings of al-Suyuti that remain widely used today include al-Itqan, on the Qur’anic sciences; and Tafsir al-Jalalayn, which he completed when only 22.
