THE CALIPHATE:

ITS RISE, DECLINE, AND FALL

FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES

by
SIR WILLIAM MUIR

FIRST PART
THE SWORD OF GOD
 

I	DEATH OF MAHOMET, ELECTION OF ABU BEKR 11 A.H.- 632 A.D.
II	EXPEDITION TO SYRIAN BORDER 11 A.H.  632A.D.
III	MEDINA THREATENED A.H. 11.  632 A.D.
IV	RETURN OF OSAMA. EXPEDITION SENT AGAINST THE APOSTATE TRIBES THROUGHOUT ARABIA 11 A.H. 632 A.D.
V	RECOVERY OF ARABIA. CAMPAIGNS OF KHALID 632-633 A.D.
	AGAINST TOLEIHA. Battle of Bozakha.
	Discomfiture of the Beni Temim. Story of  Malik ibn Noweira
	AGAINST MOSEILAMA. Battle of Yemama
	END OF 11 A.H. BEGINNING of 633 A.D
VI	APOSTASY AND REBELLION CRUSHED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE PENINSULA A.H. 632-633 A.D. Battle of Daba
VII	REVIEW. SULLENNESS OF RECLAIMED TRIBES. CAMPAIGNS IN SYRIA AND CHALDEA. DESPATCH OF TROOPS REKINDLES ENTHUSIASM. DOMESTIC EVENTS 12 A.H. - 632 A.D.
VIII	CAMPAIGN IN CHALDEA 12 AH. / 633 AD.
IX	CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA.12-13 AH / 633-634 AD
X	CAMPAIGN IN AL-IRAK. FIRST HALF OF 13 AH / MARCH-AUGUST 634 AD
XI	DEATH OF ABU BEKR. AUGUST 13 AH / 634 AD
XII	ACCESSION OF OMAR. AUGUST TO MARCH 13-14 AH / 634-635 AD
XIII	CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA. TAKING OF DAMASCUS. 13-14 AH / 634-635 AD
XIV	YEZDEJIRD SUCCEEDS TO TUE THRONE OF PERSIA. BATTLE OF AL-KADISIYA. 14 AH / 635 AD
XV	THE BATTLE OF AL-KADISIYA. CAPTURE OF AL-MEDAIN. 15-16 AH / 636-637 AD
XVI	BATTLE OF JALULA. REDUCTION OF MESOPOTAMIA. 16 AH / 637AD
XVII	CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN SYRIA. BATTLE OF THE YARMUK. 15 AH / 636 AD
XVIII	CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM. 15 AH / 636 AD
XIX	RISING IN NORTHERN SYRIA. 17 AH/ 638 AD
XX	EXPULSION OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS FROM ARABIA. 14-15 AH/ 635-636 AD
XXI	FAMINE AND PLAGUE. 18 AH / 639 AD
XXII	CONQUEST OF EGYPT. 19-20 AH / 640-641 AD
XXIII	ADVANCE ON THE SOUTH OF PERSIA. 16-20 AH / 637-641 AD
XXIV	CONQUEST OF PERSIA. 21-22 AH / 642-643 AD
XXV	THE LATER YEARS OF OMAR'S REIGN. 17-23 AH / 638-644 AD
XXVI	DEATH OF OMAR. 23 AH / 644 AD
XXVII	ELECTION OF OTHMAN Dhul-Hijja, 23 AH—Moharram, 24 AH / November, 644 AD
XXVIII	CALIPHATE OF OTHMAN. GENERAL REVIEW. 24-35 AH / 644-656 AD
XXIX	THE LATTER DAYS OF OTHMAN. 30-34 AH / 651-655 AD
XXX	DANGEROUS FACTION AT AL-KUFA.33-34 A.H. / 654-655 A.D.
XXXI	THE OUTLOOK DARKENS. 34-35 AH / 655 AD
XXXII	DEATH OF OTHMAN. 35 AH / 656 AD