two months. Later came the rule of Marwân ibn-al-Ḥakam and the insurrection of ibn-az-Zubair.
Then came ʿAbd-al-Malik ibn-Marwân to power; and everything went smoothly with him. He assigned as ʿâmil over Egypt his brother ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz who put over Ifrîḳiyah Zuhair ibn-Ḳais al-Balawi.[1] Zuhair conquered Tûnis and left for Barḳah. Hearing that a band of Greeks had landed from their ships and were doing mischief, he went against them with a cavalry detachment. On meeting them, he fell a martyr with his companions. His tomb is still there. His and his companions' tombs are called Ḳubûr ash-Shuhadâʾ [the martyrs' tombs].
Then Ḥassân ibn-an-Nuʿmân al-Ghassâni[2] became ruler. He made an incursion against al-Kâhinah,[3] the queen of the Berbers. He was defeated by her and came and occupied certain castles within the territory of Barḳah. These castles were included within one whose roof was an arched structure upon which one could cross over. Since then, these castles were called Ḳuṣûr Ḥassân.[4]
Ḥassân made another incursion, killed the queen and carried into captivity many Berbers whom he sent to ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz. Regarding these captives, the poet, abu-Miḥjan Nuṣaib, used to say, "I have seen in ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz's home Berber captives who have faces more beautiful than which I never saw."
According to ibn-al-Kalbi, Hishâm assigned Kulthûm ibn-ʿIyâḍ ibn-Waḥwaḥ al-Ḳushairi to the governorship of Ifrîḳiyah, whose people rebelled and put him to death. Ibn-al-Kalbi also states that Ifrîḳiyah was subdued in pre-
