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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