Complex sentence: He had ordered the beheading of the poetess'Asma' bint Marwan for criticizing him through her poetry and that of the elderly leader Umm Qirfa to be torn apart by camels and had her head paraded in the streets of Medina.
Split into simpler sentences: He had ordered the beheading of the poetess'Asma' bint Marwan for criticizing him through her poetry. He also ordered the elderly leader Umm Qirfa to be torn apart by camels and had her head paraded in the streets of Medina.