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Historical person
685–738
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad prince and military commander, a son of Caliph Abd al-Malik. He led major campaigns against the Byzantine Empire and is particularly associated with the enormous expedition that besieged Constantinople in 717–718 during the reign of the Umayyad caliph Sulayman.
Maslama commanded the Umayyad land forces in the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, one of the largest campaigns of the early eighth-century Byzantine-Arab wars. Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik was born in Damascus and died in Umayyad Caliphate.
In Theodore Brun’s A Burning Sea, The third Wanderer Chronicle moves decisively into documented history as the Umayyad army of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik closes on Constantinople in 717 and Emperor Leo III prepares the city’s defence.
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The Wanderer Chronicles follow Hakan—later Erlan Aurvandil—from the pre-Viking societies of eighth-century Scandinavia into the wider political world of Byzantium. A Mighty Dawn begins with exile from northern Jutland; A Sacred Storm moves to Sweden and the legendary Battle of Bråvellir; A Burning Sea carries Erlan and Lilla…
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