Annals of the early Caliphate from the death of Mahomet to the Omeyyad and Abbaside dynasties A.H. XI-LXI (A.D. 632-680) from original sources

ARABIA
and the SURROUNDING COUNTRIES
to illustrate
THE LIFE OF MOHAMMET
AND THE ANNALS OF
THE EARLY CALIPHATE
By Sir William Muir, K.C.S.I., LL.D., D.C.L.
WILLIAM MUIR
FROM THE DEATH OF MAHOMET TO THE OMEYYAD AND ABBASIDE DYNASTIES A.H. XI-LXI (A.D. 632–680) FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES.
AMSTERDAM ORIENTAL PRESS 1968
REPRINT 1968 OF THE EDITION LONDON 1883. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS.
This work is a continuation of the ‘Life of Mahomet.’ Taking up the thread from his death and burial, it tells the story of the spread of the Religion which he founded, and seeks to trace the special causes—national, tribal, and spiritual—which moulded the Faith, created its expansive power, and guided its onward progress. The object is, in short, to float the bark of Islam over the rapids and devious currents of its early course until, becoming more or less subject to ordinary human influences, it emerges on the great stream of time. I have, therefore, given the first four Caliphates in full detail; I have endeavoured to explain the ascendency of the Omeyyad house; and then, briefly showing how the Abbasside dynasty rose upon its ruins, my purpose being ended, I close the book. Thereafter the history of Islam spreads itself out into the history of the world.