eLibrary: Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates 656-1000

The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates were the earliest established after the death of the prophet Mohammad. They flourished from the seventh to the tenth century and made a major contribution to the development of Islamic Art.

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Articles

Abd Dixon,, A.A.A. The Umayyad Caliphate 65-86/684-705 (A Political Study), PhD thesis, SOAS London, 1969 [pdf]

Al-Kazwini, B. M. The Abbasid palace an analytical study of its wall-ornaments, PhD thesis, Durham University, 1969 [pdf]

Alesa, M., The Position of the Abbasid from Umayyad Opposition. [pdf]

Ali, W. Islamic coins during the Umayyad, Abbasid, Andalusian and Fatimid dynasties. Faoundation for Service Technology and Civilisation. 2004 [pdf]

Ashan, M.M., Social life under the Abbasids, PhD Thesis, SOAS London, 1973 [pdf]

Borrut, A. and Donner, F.M. (eds) Christians and Others in the Umayyad State, Chicago, 2016 [pdf]

Bosworth, C.E. and Bolshakov, O.G. Central Asia Under The Umayyads And The Early Abbasids., In ???? [pdf]

Brooks, C. Islam and The Caliphates. Western Civilization: A Concise History. 2020 [website]

Capilla, S.C., 2018, August. The Visual Construction of the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus through the Great Mosque of Cordoba. In Arts (Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 36). MDPI. [pdf download]

Cardoso, E. The door of the caliph in the Umayyad al-Andalus. from the conceptualization to the articulation of ceremonial (10th-11th centuries). PhD. Thesis University of Lisbon in 15th July, 2020.. Medievalista. Online, (30). 2021 [article]

Collins, R. Caliphs and kings: Spain, 796-1031. John Wiley & Sons. 2012 [book]

El-Hibri, T . The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. Cambridge University Press. 2021 [book]

Fernandes, H. and Kennedy, H., The door of the caliph in the Umayyad al-Andalus. [book]

Ferrari, C., Segal, S. and Cohen, E., The Golden Age of Islamic Achievement. [website]

Gillani, A.H. and Tahir, M. The administration of Abbasids caliphate: A fateful change in the muslim history. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS), 8(2), 2014 pp.565-571. [pdf]

Giv, A.L. The Effective Reasons for the Rise and fall of Abbasids State. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 7(3), 2016. pp.449-455. [pdf]

Hanne, E.J. Putting the caliph in his place: power, authority, and the late Abbasid Caliphate. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 2007 [book]

Kennedy, H.N. Commendation in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Period as Described in the Futūḥ al‑Buldān of al‑Balāḏurī. In Annales islamologiques (No. 54, pp. 73-82). Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO). 2020 [article]

Kennedy, H. The caliphate. Penguin UK. 2016. [book]

Kersten, C. The Caliphate. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. 2019 [pdf preview]

Khan, S.M. Islamic Caliphates. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved November, 22, p.2022. 2019 [website]

Marsham, A. The Caliphate. The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires, 2020. p.355. [book]

Moreno, E.M. CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT. The Umayyad World. 2021 [Taylor and Francis]

Newas, J.A. Al-Ma'mûn: Mihna And Caliphate, PhD Thesis, Nijmegen, 1992 [pdf]

Paradis, D., Barnes, S. and Lagemann, A. Islam and The Caliphates. Origins of European Civilization. 2021 [article]

Perlman, Y. The Bodyguard of the Caliphs During the Umayyad and the Early Abbasid Periods. Al-Qantara, 36(2), 2015. pp.315-340. [pdf download]

Porterfield, J., 2016. The Islamic Golden Age and the Caliphates. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2016 [book]

Ravhsanbekovna, R.O. The History of the Abbasid Caliphas in the Interpretation of Russian Orientalists. American Journal of Social and Humanitarian Research, 3(6), 2022. pp.168-175. [pdf]

Ringmar, E. The Muslim Caliphates. History of International Relations. Open book Publishers. 2016 [pdf]

Robinson, C.F. ed. The New Cambridge history of Islam: Volume 1, The formation of the Islamic world, sixth to eleventh centuries. Cambridge University Press. 2010 [book]

Safran, J.M. The second Umayyad Caliphate: the articulation of caliphal legitimacy in al-Andalus (Vol. 33). Harvard CMES. 2000 [book]

Tagle, C.M. Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009. 2018 [pdf]

Yücesoy, H. Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The ʻAbbāsid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century. Univ of South Carolina Press. 2009. [book]

Zulfa, N. and Mawardi, K., 2023. Architecture and islamic arts during the abbasiyah dynasty. Innovative: Journal Of Social Science Research, 3(2), pp.8026-8037. [pdf]