Diagrams
3.1 Circuits of Theophilus of Edessa and the chronology of Qartamīn 126
5.1 Transmission of elements related to Maslama 217
6.1 Transmission of elements related to the caliph ʿUmar II 265
Figures
0.1 Map of major Umayyad sites in Palmyra and Balqāʾ xxiv
0.2 Umayyad genealogy xxv
0.3 Abbasid genealogy xxvi
0.4 Simplified Hashimite genealogy xxvii
4.1 Khirbat al-Mafjar: Statue of the caliph on a pedestal of lions 197
8.1 Location of al-Ṣinnabra / Khirbat al-Karak 360
8.2 Al-Ṣinnabra / Khirbat al-Karak: site map 361
8.3 Inscription of ʿAbd al-Malik (ʿAqaba Afīq / Fīq) 362
8.4 ʿAbd al-Malik’s new road in the Golan (based on Elad, “The Southern Golan,” 64) 364
8.5 The Banū Umayya 386
8.6 Plan of Raqqa / al-Rāfiqa 405
Tables
4.1 Umayyad memoria under the early Abbasids 156
5.1 Main information related to Maslama in the Christian sources 219
6.1 Main information related to ʿUmar II in the Christian sources 263
6.2 Themes associated with ʿUmar II in the Muwaṭṭaʾ 276
7.1 Main information related to the “Abbasid Revolution” in the Christian sources 300
8.1 Main information related to Hishām’s activities in the Christian sources 383