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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Hisham I Caliph Of Damascus Note Born: Abt 691 at Damascus, , , Syria Married: Died: Aft 6 Feb 742 at Damascus, , , Syria Father: Caliph Al-walid I Of Damascus Mother: Unknown
WIFE
Name: Born: Died: Father: Mother:
CHILDREN
Name: Mu''awiya Ibn Hisham Born: Bet 705 and 715 Died: Abt 736 Wife: Berber Raha
NOTES
1). Points of interest in Jericho West Bank include a 6t h c e ntury synagoguewith an intact mosai c Hisham s pal ac e , w hi ch was built in the 700s as awinter retreat fo r t h e Umay ya d Caliph His ham and is a surviving example of e ar ly Isla mi carchitecture see Caliphate and th e Byzan ti n estruct ur e of Saint George s monastery. Loca ted near b y are the Mo un t ofTemptation Qarantal , Day r al , whic h , according t o Ne w Testamenttradition, is t he site whe r e the devil temp te d J esus Christ, and thec aves of Qumr an , where the Dea d Se a Scrolls were discove red in 1947 . Sou rce Jericho, Micro soft R Encarta R 98 Encyclop edia . c 1993 1997Mi crosof t Corporatio n . All rights re serve d. His ham ib n Abd alM alik, b. 691, Da mascu s now in Syria , d . Feb. 6 , 743 , Damascus the ten t h cal iph, who reigned dur ing the f i nal period ofprospe rity an d glory of the Umayyad s. Before his accession to the throne in 724, Hisham l e d a q u i et life in theUmayyad court, holdi ng no import an t publ i c o ffices. He reigned during atime of relativ e ca lm. His ha m ea sily maint ained internal security bu t wasf orced t o mo un ta number of military campaigns alo ng th e front ie rs o f th eempire. His main concern was t o conso lidate admi nistr ativ e control overthe vast la nd s that h e had inheri ted. T houg h it is often difficult t odetermin e which polic ies ste mme d from the caliph s pe rsonal ini tiativeand whi ch fro m th e decisions of subord inate offic ials, th e outl ines of som e of his more impor tant policie s are clear. I n particul ar h erecognized th e da nger of c entrifugal forc es among th e Ara bs, whoth enconstituted t he dominant elem ents in t h e Islam ic emp ire. The Arabs w eredivided into t wo large f actions, t h e northern and th e souther n, andHis ham sough t to draw b ot h elements int o his administration. A careful and frugal administrator, he devoted much att e n t i on to thereceipt and expenditure o f the imperial r ev en ue s , and some sources evencredit him with reformin g an d r eor ga nizing th e whole system ofagricultural tax ation . I n add ition he pursued an energetic buildingpoli cy , c onst ructi n g a whole series of castles and palace s i n Syria. I nrelig io us affairs he was strict ly orthod ox . Throughou t his rei g n hesought to have his own son n ame d heir presu mptive, b u t h e was forced toaccept as h ei r his nephew al Walid ib n Y azid, who had been nominat e d bythe pre viou s caliph, Ya zi d II. Source www.eb.com

						

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