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Preface Abbreviations Translator's Foreword The Events of the Year 64 (cont'd) (683/684) The Caliphate of Mu'awiyah b. Yazid 'Ubaydallah b. Ziyad and the People of al-Basrah Following the Death of Yazid The Deposition of 'Amir b. Hurayth by the People of al-Kufah and Their Appointment of Amir b. Mas'ud as Governor over Them The Rendering of Allegiance to Marwan b. al-Hakam in Syria The Battle at Marj Rahit between al-Dahhak v. Qays and Marwan b. al-Hakam and Its Immediate Consequences The Disturbances in Khurasan Associated with 'Abdallah b. Khazim The Beginnings of the Movement of the Penitents (al-Tawwabun) in al-Kufah The End of the Kharijites' Support for Abdallah b. al-Zubayr in Mecca and the Dissensions among Them The Arrival of al-Mukhtar in al-Kufah Ibn al-Zubayr's Demolition of the Ka'bah The Events of the Year 65 (684/685) The Departure of the Penitents from al-Kufah and Their Destruction by the Syrian Army at the Battle of 'Ayn al-Wardah Marwan's Designation of His Two Sons 'Abd al-Malik and 'Abd al-Aziz as Heir Apparent The Death of Marwan The Failure of the Syrian Expedition against Medina The Plague of al-Jarif in al-Basrah The Threat to al-Basrah from Nafi' b. al-Azraq and the Kharijites and al-Muhallab b. Abi Sufrah's Victory over Them Ibn al-Zubayr's Dismissal and Appointment of Governors in al-Kufah and Medina Ibn al-Zubayr's Rebuilding of the Ka'bah The Continuation of Tribal Warfare in Khurasan under 'Abdallah b. Khazim The Events of the Year 66 (685/686) Al-Mukhtar's Revolutionary Movement in al-Kufar and His Appeal to the Shi'ah There Bibliography of Cited Works Index