The Abbasid Revolution // Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (717-750)

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- The History of Al-Tabari - Translated by John Alden Williams

- M. A. Shaban - The Abbasid Revolution

- Khalid Blankinship - The End of the Jihad State

- Hugh Kennedy - The Caliphate

- Hugh Kennedy - Court of the Caliphs

- Hugh Kennedy - The Prophet & The Age of the Caliphates

- Hugh Kennedy - The Great Arab Conquests

- Tom Holland - In The Shadow of the Sword

- Robert G Hoyland - In God’s Path

- Rosamond McKitterick - The New Cambridge Medieval History C.700-900

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