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Welcome to the Early Muslim military history task force, which covers the military history of the early Muslim states up to c. 1600 AD. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers the early military history of Islam and the various Muslim states, up to c. 1000 A.H. (c. 1600 AD). The primary focus is the Muslim conquests, the various Caliphates, and the early Islamic civil wars. Later military conflicts are covered by the Ottoman military history task force and the Middle Eastern military history task force. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Early Muslim-task-force=yes or Early Muslim=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Early Muslim military history task force articles.

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1. Ahendra (talk · contribs) (particular interest on bio of Companions of the prophet)
2. Al Ameer son (talk · contribs) (Rashidun battles/conquests/actities in the Levant)
3. Bless sins (talk · contribs)
4. Burningview (talk · contribs) (Interested in Berber Revolt articles and their improvement)
5. Cplakidas (talk · contribs) (Early Muslim world (7th–12th centuries) with focus on the caliphates; Arab and Turkish wars with Byzantium)
6. Iazyges (talk · contribs) (Mostly Roman and Byzantine)
7. Kansas Bear (talk · contribs)
8. MPS1992 (talk · contribs)
9. Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) (Byzantine-Arab Wars)
10. Sa.vakilian (talk · contribs)

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Resources

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General resources

• Encyclopaedia of Islam (12 vols.) (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1960–2005.
• Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1985–2007). The History of al-Ṭabarī (40 vols). SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.
• El-Hibri, Tayeb (2011). "The empire in Iraq, 763–861". In Robinson, Chase F. (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 269–304. ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.
• Kennedy, Hugh N. (2001). The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25093-5.
• Kennedy, Hugh N. (2004). The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (Second ed.). Harlow, UK: Pearson Education Ltd. ISBN 0-582-40525-4.
• Kennedy, Hugh N. (2007). The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81740-3.

Abbasids

• Shaban, M. A. (1979). The ʿAbbāsid Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29534-3.
• Sharon, Moshe (1990). Revolt: the social and military aspects of the ʿAbbāsid revolution. Jerusalem: Graph Press Ltd. ISBN 965-223-388-9.
• Kennedy, Hugh (2006). When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306814808.
• Gordon, Matthew (2001). The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish military of Samarra, A.H. 200–275/815–889 C.E. State University of New York Press. pp. 90–104. ISBN 978-0-7914-4795-6.
• Bonner, Michael (2010). "The waning of empire, 861–945". In Robinson, Charles F (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 305–359. ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.
• El-Hibri, Tayeb (2010). "The empire in Iraq, 763–861". In Robinson, Charles F (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 269–304. ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.

Byzantine frontier

• Kaegi, Walter E. (1995). Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-5214-8455-3.
• Kaegi, Walter E. (2008). "Confronting Islam: emperors versus caliphs (641–c. 850)". In Sheppard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500–1492. Cambridge University Press. pp. 365–394. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
• Kaegi, Walter (2010). Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521196772.
• Vasiliev, A. A. (1935), Byzance et les Arabes, Tome I: La Dynastie d'Amorium (820–867) (in French), French ed.: Henri Grégoire, Marius Canard, Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales
• Vasiliev, A. A. (1968), Byzance et les Arabes, Tome II, 1ére partie: Les relations politiques de Byzance et des Arabes à l'époque de la dynastie macédonienne (867–959) (in French), French ed.: Henri Grégoire, Marius Canard, Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales
• Haldon, John F.; Kennedy, Hugh (1980). "The Arab–Byzantine Frontier in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries: Military Organization and Society in the Borderlands". Recueil des Travaux de l'Institut d'Etudes Byzantins. Belgrade. 19: 79–116.
• Bonner, Michael (1996). Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab–Byzantine Frontier. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society. ISBN 0-940490-11-0.
• Vahan Kurkjian (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
• Armenian Historical Sources

Egypt

• Brett, Michael (2010). "Egypt". In Robinson, Charles F (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 506–540. ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.
• Kennedy, Hugh (1998). "Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641–868". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 62–85. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
• Bianquis, Thierry (1998). "Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Tūlūn to Kāfūr, 868–969". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 86–119. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
• Lev, Yaacov (1999). Saladin in Egypt. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-11221-9.
• Sanders, Paula A. (1998). "The Fatimid State, 969–1171". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 151–174. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.

Fatimids

• Brett, Michael (2001). The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth Century CE. The Medieval Mediterranean. Vol. 30. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 9004117415.
• Halm, Heinz (1996). The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Vol. 26. transl. by Michael Bonner. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 9004100563.
• Lev, Yaacov (1991). State and Society in Fatimid Egypt. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004093447.

Iran

• Mottahedeh, Roy (1975). "The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Iran". In Frye, R. N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 57–90. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.
• Bosworth, C. E. (1975). "The Ṭāhirids and Ṣaffārids". In Frye, R.N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 90–135.
• Madelung, W. (1975). "The Minor Dynasties of Northern Iran". In Frye, R. N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 198–249. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.
• Bosworth, C. E. (1968). "The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000–1217)". In Frye, R. N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–202. ISBN 0-521-06936-X.

Khurasan and Central Asia

• Gibb, H. A. R. (1923). The Arab Conquests in Central Asia. London: The Royal Asiatic Society. OCLC 499987512.
• Daniel, Elton L. (1979). The Political and Social History of Khurasan under Abbasid Rule, 747–820. Minneapolis & Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, Inc. ISBN 0-88297-025-9.

North Africa and Italy

• Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. (1987), A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-33767-4
• Talbi, Mohamed (1966), L'émirat aghlabide (184–296/800–909): Histoire politique (in French), Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve
• Metcalfe, Alex (2009), The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2008-1

Umayyads

• Cobb, Paul M. (2010). "The empire in Syria, 705–763". In Robinson, Charles F (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 226–268. ISBN 978-0-521-83823-8.
• Hawting, G. R. (2000). The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661–750 (2nd Edition). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24072-7.
• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994). The End of the Jihâd state: The Reign of Hishām ibn ʻAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-1827-7.
• Nicolle, David (1997). "Arms of the Umayyad Era". In Lev, Yaacov (ed.). War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean: 7th - 15th Centuries. Leiden: BRILL. pp. 9–100. ISBN 90-04-10032-6.