Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

Affairs in the Viceroyalty of Ifriqiyah
Reports from North Africa were also not encouraging. A secretary of Hajjaj had been appointed as governor of North Africa. The Berbers not tolerating his harsh treatment like Hajjaj rose in rebellion, killed him and cut off relation with Damascus. Attachment with its dependency, Spain, was also not strong. Under Sulayman the
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Pyrenees had been crossed for the second time by the Muslims um Amir al-Hurr. France was torn asunder about this time by inter discord and hatred of the French to their masters, the Franks. In 1 A.H./718-19 A.D., its southern provinces were attacked by 1 Muslims and lands as Nimes were occupied by them.
Three years after they stormed Narbonne and garrisoned it the headquarters in France. Under Samh b. Malik al-Khawlani dun the time of’Umar II Toulouse was besieged but Muslims were pul flight by Count Eudo and they under the banner of ’Abdur Rahrr ibn ’Abdullah al-Ghafiqi retreated safely to Narbonne. Embolden by the discomfiture of the Muslims in France the Asturiz established themselves in the mountainous region, threw off i Musalim’s yoke and laid in foundation of a new power which, in d course of time, brought an end to Umayyad rule in Spain.3 Risings of the Alids and Abbasids
The advantages of the weak and unpopular government Yazid II were taken by the Alids and the descendants of He Prophet’s uncle al-Abbas, who now came for the first time to pi their roles in the politics of Islam. They propagated their vie) throughout the East which at length led to the transfer of power frc the hand of the Umayyads to those of the Abbasids. A deputation Iraqi merchants canvassing the cause of the Alids and Abbasids m Khudhayna in Khurasan. Yazid II was more fond of harem life th< any of his predecessors. Among his favourite slave girls we Habbabah and Sallamah who exercised great influence on tl Caliph. He, however, succeeded in unifying the administration < Medina and Makkah, pacifying the ”Iraqis and revising the pensic registers in Egypt. The introduction of the land-tax in certa provinces abolished by his predecessors made him unpopular amor the populace.
Death
He died at the age of forty after a short and an inglorioi reign of about four years in Rajjab 105 A.H./Jan 724. A.D. Early i his reign he had nominated his brother Hisham and after him his ow son Walid then a minor to succeed him.
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