Abstract
Yezid b. Abdülmelik is the 9th Khalifa of the Emevi
dynasty after Ömer b. Abdülaziz. His term of power is between the years 720-724. He became heir
to the throne with the legacy of his father, Abdülmelik b. Mervan (5th Emevi Khalifa), but many
people did not see him appropriate to the crown. There are too many negative commitments about
his administration and personality while there are very few positive ones. He followed peaceful
and neutral politics of Ömer b. Abdulaziz in the domestic politics for a short time, but then he gave
up. Domestic conflicts were again flamed because of his sided administration; this situation clearly
became one of the reasons of the collapse of Emevi dynasty. During his term of power, he was
criticized as being too much interested in entertainment, poetry and music and as not giving
enough importance to the state administration. There was an attempt to coup d'etat against him.
Although he governed the country with daily simple actions, the claims that he fully left the state
administration due to the entertainment are really wrong. Negative applications against Christians,
taxing again non-Arab Muslims, hostile attitudes against Mühellebiler family who served devotedly
to the Emevi State from the beginning are such applications to which many people negatively
reacted. In foreign policy, he did not have his own line, he followed traditional conquest policy. In
the time of Yezid, beside several defeats, he got some small successes. He died in 105/724.
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Details
| Other ID | JA44SG92DH |
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| Journal Section | Research Article |
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| Publication Date | August 1, 2008 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2008 |
