Suny Series in Near Eastern Studies: History of Al-Ṭabarī : The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate by Carole Hillenbrand (1987, Trade Paperback)
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After the death of the caliph Hish?m in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of the Umayyad power?the ruling family itself?was swift and devastating. Three Umayyad caliphs (al-Wal?. d II, Yaz?d III, and Ibrahim) followed Hish?m within little more than a year, and the subsequent intervention of their distant cousin Marw?n b. Muhammad (the future Marw?n II) could not arrest the forces of opposition that were shortly to culminate in the ?.