659

This page relates to the year 659 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • Holy Leger bishop of Autun.

  • Foundation of the Benedictine abbey of Corbie by the regent Bathilde.
  • Constantin Pogonat, Héraclius and Tibérios, Co-emperors of the East.
  • Peace treaty between Byzance and the Islam.

  • Mu' awiyya, recognized in Syria then in Egypt, is proclaimed caliph. Damas becomes the capital with the detriment of Médine. The Empire is organized in a centralized monarchical state which rests on the Kalbides or Yemenis and of recently converted the Syriens executives (Ibn Sarjun, a former Byzantine civil servant, is the chief of finances of Mu' awiyya).
    • the seizure of power by Mu' awiyya, wire of Abû Sufyân ibn Harb, former chief of Mecquois hostile to the Prophet, marks the decisive victory of the aristocracy quraychite over the companions of the prophet. In an empire governs by a religion or nothing distinguishes the spiritual power from the temporal power, it must fix attributions of the caliphate. Its capacity support on the Arab tradition where the chief of tribe is chosen by the council of Old which shares the capacity with him, on the Byzantine tradition or Persian where the sovereign has an absolute capacity of divine gasoline and on the Koranic law which gives indications on the manner of controlling and to obey. The caliph omeyyade is “ Khalifat Allah ” (“Caliph of God”) and Amir Al Muminin (“Commander of the believers”. The caliphate takes especially the form of a military monarchy inspired of the Byzantine example.

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