Bibliographie pages 332-359. Notes bibliographiques. Index

1. The Origins of Arabian Empire 2. The Seventh Century 'World Crisis' 3. The 'Conquest Society' and the Defeat of Rome and Iran 4. The Emergence of the Umayyad Empire 5. The Succession to Mu'awiya and the Second Civil War 6. The Imperial Marwanid Caliphate 7. The Siege of Constantinople and the Short Caliphates of Sulayman, 'Umar II and Yazid II 8. Hisham b. 'Abd al-Malik: Renewal and Defeat 9. The Collapse of Umayyad Power 10. Resources, Settlement Patterns and Commerce 11. Christians, Zoroastrians, Jews and Others in the Umayyad Empire 12. The Provinces, Government and Taxation