A poet of the Abbasid period Abu al-Qasim al-Zahi (Ali b. Ishaq b. Khalaf al-Zahi) 313-352 AH/925-963 CE : his life and poetry by Sindawi, Khalid

Consorts of the caliphs women and the court of Baghdad by Ibn al-Sai, Ali ibn Anjab 1196 or 1197-1275

Subjects: “…Abbasids Early works to 1800…”

From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850 by Crone ,Patricia 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Sulayman -- The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtar's revolt and the Abbasid revolution -- On the meaning of the Abbasid call to al-Rida -- The Abbasid Abna and Sasanid cavalrymen -- The early Islamic world -- The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period -- Mawali and the prophet's family : an early Shiite view -- Imperial trauma : the case of the Arabs…”

Evolution of Islamic wisdom

Table of Contents: “…Role of Umayyads in evolution of wisdom -- 4. Role of Abbasids in evolution of wisdom -- 5. Effect of Arabic language on wisdom -- 6. literary wisdom of Islam -- 7. …”

A brief history of Iraq by Fattah, Hala Mundhir, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Iraq, the first society (prehistory to 539 BCE) -- 2: From the Persian empire to the Sassanians (539 BCE-651 CE) -- 3: Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (651-750) -- 4: Abbasid and post-Abbasid dynasty (750-1258) -- 5: Turkish tribal migrations and the early Ottoman state (1256-1638) -- 6: Imperial administration, local rule, and Ottoman recentralization (1638-1914) -- 7: British occupation and the Iraqi monarchy (1914-1958) -- 8: Growth of the republican regimes and the emergence of Baathist Iraq (1958-1979) -- 9: Rule of Saddam Hussein and the difficult legacy of the Mukhabarat state (1979-2003) -- 10: War in Iraq (2003-2008) -- Postscript -- Appendixes: 1: Basic facts about Iraq -- 2: Chronology -- 3: Bibliography -- 4: Suggested reading -- Index.…”
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A history of the Islamic world, 600-1800 : empire, dynastic formations, and heterogeneities in pre-modern Islamic West-Asia / by Steenbergen, J. van

Table of Contents: “…The 'Classical' period of the Abbasids: late antique imperial formation and the triumph of the East (750-908) -- 6. …”

Non-Muslims in the early Islamic Empire from surrender to coexistence by Levy-Rubin, Milka

Fatimid history and Ismaili doctrine by Walker, Paul Ernest 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Fatimid institutions of learning -- Succession to rule in the Shiite caliphate -- The Ismaili daʻwa in the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim -- Another family of Fatimid chief Qāḍīs : the al-Fāriqīs -- A Byzantine victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971) -- The "crusade" of John Tzimisces in the light of new Arabic evidence -- Al- Maqrīzī and the Fatimids -- Purloined symbols of the past : the theft of souvenirs and sacred relics in the rivalry between the Abbasids and Fatimids -- "In praise of al- Ḥākim" : Greek elements in Ismaili writings on the Imamate -- Abū Tammām and his Kitāb al-Shajara : a new Ismaili treatise from tenth-century Khurasan -- An Ismaʻili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects -- Eternal cosmos and the womb of history : time in early Ismaili thought -- The doctrine of metempsychosis in Islam…”

A history of Palestine, 634-1099 by Gil, Moshe 1921-

Table of Contents: “…The days of al-Mamun and his successors. The Abbasid caliphs and Jerusalem. The sixties of the ninth century. …”

Islamic empires fifteen cities that define a civilization by Marozzi, Justin 1970-

Imperial China and its southern neighbours

Table of Contents: “…-- Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands -- Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam -- Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island -- Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate -- The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China -- Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century -- Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? …”

LOST IN THE SACRED : Why the Muslim World Stood Still / by Diner, Dan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Desert and Steppe -- Tribute and tax -- Central power and urban culture -- Umayyads and Abbasids -- Mercenaries and traders -- Polis and Medina -- Public and private -- Benefices and capital -- Labor and property -- Time and liturgy -- Ethics and morals -- Sacred and profane -- 6. …”

Court cultures in the Muslim world seventh to nineteenth centuries

Table of Contents: “…Court and courtiers: a preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology in Muslim court cultures of the Middle Ages -- 5. …”

The heritage of Arabo-Islamic learning studies presented to Wadad Kadi

Table of Contents: “…Donner -- Single isnads or riwayas quoted books in Ibn 'Asakir's tarjama of Tamim al-dari / Jens Scheiner -- Friendship in the service of governance: makarim al-akhlaq in Abbasid political culture / Paul l. Heck -- Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof / Heinz Halm -- A new Latin-Arabic document from Norman Sicily (November 595 h/1198 -- Ce) / Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns -- Religion, law, and Islamic thought: The rhetorical Qur'an or orality as a theologumenon / Angelika Neuwirth -- The "shearing of forelocks" as a penitential rite / Marion Holmes Katz -- Authority in Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani's Kitab al-nawadir wa-l-ziyadat: 'Ala ma fi l-mudawwana min ghayriha min al-ummahat: the case of "the Chapter of judgments" (kitab al-aqdiya) / Mohammad Fadel -- A segment of the genealogy of sunni hadith criticism: the mysterious relationship between al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Hakim al-Naysaburi / Jonathan Brown -- Al-hakim al-Naysaburi and the companions of the Prophet: an original Sunni voice in the Shi'i century / Scott C. …”

A Baghdad chronicle by Levy, Reuben

Al-Jahiz in praise of books by Montgomery, James E.

Between revolution and state the path to Fatimid statehood : Qadi Al-Nuʻman and the construction of Fatimid legitimacy by Hamdani, Sumaiya Abbas

Non-Muslim provinces under early Islam Islamic rule and Iranian legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania by Vacca, Alison

The Fatimid Empire by Brett, Michael 1934-