Muawiyah I

The Shiat Ali, or partisans of Ali, formed following the 680 murder of Ali’s son Hussein and his followers by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid I in Karbala, Iraq. Following the death of Hussein, the Shia would remain a source of instability for the Umayyad regime, waging a low level insurgency against the Umayyad state and eventually supporting the Abbasid revolution that overthrew the Umayyad Dynasty in 750. This study did not examine the Shia insurgency’s cost to the Umayyad treasury or how much it required the Umayyads to allocate military forces to quelling domestic unrest vice expanding their empire, diversions of resources which would have limited the Umayyads’ ability to commit forces to the Battle of Tours or consolidate any gains in France. The Kharijites, or rejectionists, were another faction which served as a source of unrest in the Umayyad Caliphate and contributed to the…

jumped into the shower and got out 10 minutes later. 'What the hell do I wear? Are we going somewhere nice or casual? Should I text her and see? Fuck it, I 'll surprise her. ' Carmilla decided to wear her black skinny jeans with the tear on the kneecaps, her leather boots, and a black top that slightly showed off her stomach. She had the abs, so why not impress Laura? She wore her hair in the usual way, curls draping down her shoulders, while her bangs swooped over her…

This was my exit. I had skipped breakfast and at that time my stomach had began to rumble. Not far off the highway I spotted a quaint home that had been transformed into a diner. I decided to stop. An elderly woman with bouffant silver hair, wearing a blue checked dress and apron greeted me at the door with a smile before seating me. It was as if I had stepped back into an old movie or perhaps a doorway into the past. Upon the waitress’s instance, I ordered the daily special. It was a…

emotion ruined my relationship between my boyfriend and I because it caused cheating, accusations to be made, fights between us, and finally our breakup. Michael was my boyfriend’s name. We were exactly alike, as if we were one person. Our movements and thoughts were synchronized. People always mistakes us as siblings because our behaviors were so similar. I seriously that of Michael as my soul mate, he was heaven sent, designed epically for me by god himself. This summer, Michael’s father got…

and to create a uniform set of rules to govern all intercollegiate athletics. The NCAA is a nonprofit organization that currently consists of over 1,200 different universities. The NCAA organization started out with an emphasis on student athletes. The mission of the NCAA is to have an emphasis primarily on sports, but also having certain rules and requirements for their students to follow in the classroom. In August 1973, the idea of different divisions was implemented within NCAA…

For as long as I can remember, there is a specific question that I have asked myself: Why am I here and where am I headed? The fact that I am unable to answer this question completely drains my energies. While I am sure that a number of individuals struggle with this question, I have found that I do not even understand the question itself, much less its answer. For the longest time, I remember being so lost that I no longer recognized the person in the mirror. Looking back on my high school…

look forward to is the senior prom. Truthfully, I never had much interest and had no plans on going to prom mostly due to the fact that I was really bashful and unconfident. Even still, my friends would constantly ask whether or not I was going to attend prom. I would tell them “I don’t know” every time, but since it was finally my senior year, my friends filled me with guilt, saying that I would regret not going to our final high school dance. After constantly thinking and being jealous of all…

Bryan. Last two weeks ago, I remembered I was about to have a nice and plentiful dinner outside with my parents. Unfortunately, things didn’t go that smooth as I was expected before. “Pauline, grade 12 is an important year to you, have you decided to go to what kind of stream after graduated from high school?” “My Queen (my mother), as day went by day, I decided to go with Bio-chemistry engineer. And I would like to go to McMaster University as they offer co-op program in which I could gain…

communities of the same faith across a multitude of borders. To see the way Christianity is able to go hand in hand with globalization, we must look at where it began, and what globalization actually means to understand the relationship between the two. It may be asked, why is it that religion is considered globalized? In order to answer this question, there needs to be an explanation of globalization. Globalization has countless definitions such as, “[…] a set of human actions that share a…

familial or social aspects of Pacific Life. When Pacific people became literate after contact, they began to document everything they knew about their culture, and among these works were stories that captured emotions about those times. An example of documented emotions may be found when we analyze the song “Kaulana Na Pua”, written and composed by Ellen Wright Prendergast. Predergast along with the Royal Hawaiian Band wrote the song as they discussed their opposition to the Annexation of…