Preface to the English Translation (2022) Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011) Translator's Note List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space 1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission 1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates 2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects 2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate? 3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate? 3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: "External" or "Eastern" Sources?4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion 4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study 4.

2 Umayyad Memoria 4.3 Spaces of Memory5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. Abd Al-Malik, Combat Hero 5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success 5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero? 5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: Umar B. Abd Al-Aziz, the "Holy" Caliph 6.1 Umar II in the Islamic Tradition 6.

2 Umar II in the Christian Sources 6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space 7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates 7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution 7.3 Abd Allah B. Ali and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate?8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings 8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape 8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power 8.

3 Abbasid Reconfigurations Conclusion Sources Bibliography Index.