A.D. 661–80]
STATE OF SYRIA
299
A.H. 40–60.
indigenous population. The Christians of Syria were at least as well off under Muʿāwiya as they had been under Heraclius. One of his chief advisers was a Christian: he rebuilt the church of Edessa, which had been destroyed by an earthquake; and Jacobites and Maronites brought their disputes to him to be settled.
