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The Abbasid Caliphs

Further Reading

Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies (Penguin, 2006)

Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A companion (Penguin, 1994)

Hugh Kennedy, The Court of the Caliphs: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World (Phoenix, 2004)

Hugh Kennedy, The Armies of the Caliphs (London, 2001)

Saleh Said Agha, The Revolution which Toppled the Umayyads (Leiden, 2003)

Roger Allen, The Arabic Literary Heritage (Cambridge, 1998)

Jonathan Bloom, Paper before Print: the history and impact of paper in the Islamic World (London, 2001)

T. El-Hibri, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge, 1999)

Dmitri Gutas, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture (London, 1998)


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