Dergiabant

Abstract

The text we translate is the section entitled "An Overview of Umayyad Management" written by Yusuf al-Iş in the Umayyad political history of “ed-Devletü'l-Ümeviyye ve'l-ahdasu elleti sebekatha ve meheddet leha ibtidaen fitneti Osman”. The author, starting with the end of the Caliph Othman period till the collapse of the Umayyad state, but with a style that seeks to capture unrecognized points without going into details. For example, each Umayyad caliphate’s political activities, based on the psychological analysis of the character of the caliphate. In this section, the author tries to show the general tendencies dominating the Umayyad state from a point of view that we have not encountered very often in the history books. He also makes sociologically based political readings on "the change between generations" on the people in the relevant histories and tries to reveal the deeply rooted causes of political events. It presents a perspective that reveals general, inclusive, and causal aspects of Umayyad history from a philosophical point of view.