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The Conquest of Syria, Persia, and AEgypt, by the Saracens: Containing the Lives of Abubeker, Omar and Othman, the Immediate Successors of Mahomet (London: Printed for R. Knaplock et al., 1708), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
The History of the Saracens (second edition, 2 volumes; 1718), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
The History of the Saracens (third edition, 2 volumes; Cambridge: Printed for A. Ockley, 1757), by Simon Ockley
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The History of the Saracens, Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors, to the Death of Abdalmelik, the Eleventh Caliph (6th edition; London: H. J. Bohn, 1857), by Simon Ockley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Kitāb mukhtaṣar al-Khulafā' (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Amīrīyah, 1891), by ʻAlī ibn Anjab Ibn al-Sāʻī (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronique de Abou Djafar-Moʻhammed-ben Djarir-ben-Yezid Tabari (Impr. Impériale, 1867), by 838?-923 Ṭabarī, Hermann Zotenberg, Abū ʻAli Muhammed ibn Muhammad, and Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Balʻamī (page images at HathiTrust)
T̤abakāt-i-Nāṣirī: A general history of the Muhammadan dynasties of Asia, including Hindustan; from A. H. 194 (810 A.D.) to A.H. 658 (1260 A.D.) and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Islam (Printed by Gilbert & Rivington, 1881), by Minhāj Sirāj Jūzjānī and H. G. Raverty (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī akhbār al-bashar (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ḥussaynīyah [al-Miṣrīyah, 1907), by Abū al-Fidāʼ Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ṣilat tārīkh al-Ṭabarī (Maṭbaʻat Birīl, 1897), by d. ca. 980 'Arīb ibn Sa'd al-Kātib al-Qurtubī and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust)
Mirʼāt al-janān wa-ʻibrat al-yaqẓān (Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif [al-Niẓāmīyah, 1918), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad Yāfiʻī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tārīkh (Batavorum, E.J. Brill, 1883), by Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb Yaʻqūbī and Martijn Theodor Houtsam (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh al-kāmil ([s.n.], 1800), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr and -956? Masʻūdī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Annali dell'Islām / Dall'anno 1. al H. (U. Hoepli, 1905), by Leone Caetani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fragmenta historicorum arabicorum (Maktabat al-Muthanná, in the 19th century), by P. de Jong and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of the Arabs (Macmillan, 1951), by Philip K. Hitti (page images at HathiTrust)
Islam and the psychology of the Musulman. Translated by A.S. Moss-Blundell, with a pref. by Louis Bertrand. (Chapman & Hall, 1924), by André Servier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Arab civilization (W. Heffer & sons, limited, 1926), by Joseph Hell and shaikh Khudā Bakhsh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Arabia (The Clarendon Press, 1922), by D. G. Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire sur les Carmathes du Bahraïn et les Fatimides (E.J. Brill, 1886), by M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust)
Siasset namèh : traité de gouvernement (E. Leroux, 1891), by Niẓām al-Mulk and Charles Henri Auguste Schefer (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh al-masʼalah al-Sharqīyah (Maṭabaʼat al-Hilāl, 1921), by Ḥusayn Labīb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb duwal al-Islām ... (Hyderabad, 1919), by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Dhahabī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Futūḥ al-Shām (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Sharqīyah, 1903), by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Wāqidī and ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥijāzī Sharqāwī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Saracens, from the earliest times to the fall of Bagdad (T. Fisher Unwin ;, 1889), by Arthur Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
Tarih-i İslâm (Darüşşafaka Kitaphanesi, 1910), by Ahmet Hilmi Şehbenderzade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nuhbet el-tevarih vʾel-ahbar (Takvimhane-yi Âmire, 1860), by Edirneli Mehmet bin Mehmet (page images at HathiTrust)
Düvel-i İslâmiye : tarihi medhaller ile takvimi ve ensabi cedvelleri muhtevidir (Milli Matbaa, 1927), by Halil Edhem and Stanley Lane-Poole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Müneccimbaşı tarihi tercümesi (Matbaa-yı Âmire, 1868), by Aḥmad ibn Luṭf Allāh Munajjim Bāshī and Ahmet Nedim (page images at HathiTrust)
Smbatay Sparapeti eghbōr Hetʻmoy aṛajnoy arkʻayi hayotsʻ Patmutʻyun hunatsʻ i Kostandnupōlis ew hayotsʻ metsatsʻ ěst kargi zhamanakatsʻ (880-04 Moskua : I tparani Vōldēmaray Gōtʻiē, 1856., 1856), by Sparapet Smbat (page images at HathiTrust)
The Caliphate, its rise, decline, and fall : from original sources (AMS Press, 1975), by William Muir and T. H. Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
Mahomet and his successors (Lippincott, 1874), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Les Barbares : des grandes invasions aux conquêtes turques du XIe siècle / Louis Halphen. (Presses universitaires de France, 1997), by Louis Halphen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tārīkh al-tamaddun al-Islāmī : wa-huwa yabḥathu fī nushūʼ al-dawlah al-Islāmīyah wa-tārīkh maṣāliḥihā al-idārīyah wa-al-siyāsīyah wa-al-mālīyah wa-al-jundīyah wa-saʻat mamlakathā wa-bayān tharwatihā wa-ḥaḍāratihā wa-ubbahatihā wa-aḥwāl khulafāʼihā wa-majālisihim wa-quṣūrihim wa-kull mā yataʻalliqu bihim wa-tārīkh al-ʻilm wa-al-ṣināʻah wa-al-adab wa-al-shiʻr wa-al-ādāb al-ijtimāʻīyah wa-al-ʻādāt wa-al-akhlāq fī ibbān dhālika al-tamaddun maʻa ʻalāqatihi bi-al-tamaddun al-ḥadīth (Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1902), by Jirjī Zaydān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Murūj al-dhahab wa-maʻādin al-jawhar (Maṭbaʻat Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, 1885), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ibn al-Shiḥnah, and -956? Masʻūdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical studies in Mug̲h̲al numismatics. (The Numismatic Society of India, 1923), by Shahpurshah Hormasji Hodivala (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of the Saracen empire (A. Murray, 1870), by Edward Gibbon and Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
Tarikh al-umam wa-al-muluk. ([Cairo, 1917), by 838?-923 Tabarī, 838?-923. al- Tabarī, and -979 or 80 ʻArīb ibn Saʻd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The origins of the Islamic state : being a translation from the Arabic, accompanied with annotations, geographic and historic notes of the Kitâb futûḥ al-buldân of al-Imâm Abu-l ʻAbbâs, Aḥmad ibn-Jâbir al-Balâdhuri (AMS Press, 1968), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Balādhurī, Francis Clark Murgotten, and Philip K. Hitti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Südslaven im dienste des Islams (vom X. bis ins XVI. jahrhundert) ein forschungsbericht aus kroatisch erschienenen studien zusammengestellt (Markert & Petters, 1928), by Vladimir Mažuranić and Camilla Lucerna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historie des révolutions de l'empire des Arabes (Gissey, 1750), by Franćois Augier de Marigny and M. l'abbé Pérau (page images at HathiTrust)
Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir at-Tabari (E.J. Brill, 1879), by 838?-923 Ṭabarī, V. R. Rozen, Stanislas Guyard, M. Th. Houtsma, David Heinrich Müller, Ignazio Guidi, Siegmund Fränkel, Heinrich Thorbecke, Eugen Prym, P. de Jong, Theodor Nöldeke, J. Barth, and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tabak-at-i-n-asir-i: a general history of the Muhammadan dynasties of Asia, including Hind-ust-an, from A.H. 194 (810 A.D.),to A.H. 658 (1260 A.D.), and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Isl-am (Printed by Gilbert & Rivington, 1881), by Abu 'Umar Minh-aj ul-D-in 'Usm-an ibn Sir-aj ul-D-in and H. G. Raverty (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronique (L'impr. Imperiale, 1867), by 838?-923 Ṭabarī, Abū 'Ali Muhammad ibn Muhammad, and Hermann Zotenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Geschichte der Chalifen (Verlag von Friedrich Bassermann, 1846), by Gustav Weil (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Futūḥāt al-Islāmīyah baʻda muḍī al-futūḥāt al-nabawīyah (Maṭbaʻat al-Saʻādah, 1912), by Aḥmad ibn Zaynī Daḥlān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mohammedan history. (H. M. Stationery off., 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire politique des peuples musulmans depuis Mahomet jusqu'à nos jours, suivie de considérations sur les destinées futures de l'Orient (C. Thomine, 1843), by J.-J. Barrau (page images at HathiTrust)
Fezleke-yi tarih-i umum-î (Kitapcı Karabet, 1893), by Ali Tevfik (page images at HathiTrust)
Hükûmât-ı İslâmiye tarihi (Mektep-i Fünun-ı Harbiye-i Şahane Matbaası, 1898), by Raşit (page images at HathiTrust)
Hükûmât-ı İslâmiye tarihi (Mekteb-i Fünun-ı Harbiye-yi Şahane Matbaası, 1899), by Raşit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mahomet and his successors (Putnam's, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb al-imāmah wa-al-siyāsah (Maṭbaʻat al-Nīl, 1904), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim Ibn Qutaybah and Muḥammad Maḥmūd Rāfiʻī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Meri ut tevarih. (Maarif Nezareti, 1919), by Findiklili Suleyman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah, aw, Māḍī al-Sharq wa-ḥāḍirih (Maṭbaʻat Ḥamāh, 1910), by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣābūnī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der Araber bis auf den Sturz des Chalifats von Ragdad. (P. G. Hilscher, 1832), by Gustav Flügel (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemäldesaal (C.W. Leske, 1837), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
Mahomet and his successors (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and times of 'Alí ibn 'Ísà, 'the Good vizier' (The University press, 1928), by Harold Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitab Futuḥ al-buldan (Shurkah Ṭabaa al-kitab al-Arabiyyah, 1901), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Baladhuri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Müneccimbaşı tarihi tercüme. (Matbaa-yı Amire, 1868), by Aḥmad ibn Luṭf Allāh Munajjim Bāshī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb futūḥ al-buldān. (Brill, 1866), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Balādhurī (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the Saracens; comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the eleventh caliph. (Bohn, 1848), by Simon Ockley (page images at HathiTrust)
Mahomet and his successors : in two volumes (G.P. Putnam, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Kısas-i enbiya ve tavarih-i hülefa. (Kanaat Kitaphanesi, 1913), by Ahmet Cevdet Paşa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitâb at-tanbîh waʼl-ischrâf (E. J. Brill, 1894), by -956? Masʻūdī and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust)
Liber expugnationis regionum (Brill, 1866), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Balādhurī and M. J. de Goeje (page images at HathiTrust)
Mahomet and his successors (G.P. Putnam, 1868), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Mahomet and his successors (Lippincott, 1872), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitāb tajārib al-umam (yuṭlab min Maktabat al-Muthanná, 1914), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Miskawayh, D. S. Margoliouth, H. F. Amedroz, Hilāl ibn al-Muḥassin Ṣābī, and Abū Shujāʻ Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Rūdhrāwardī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lubb al-tārīkh (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ḥusaynīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1909), by Muḥammad Ghunaym (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fawát el-wafiyyát. ([publisher not identified], 1800), by Muḥammad ibn Shākir Kutubī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historiae. (Batavorum, E.J. Brill, 1883), by -897? al-Ya'qūbī and Martijn THeodor Houtsam (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kāthūlīkīyah lil-Ābāʾ al-Yasūʻīyīn, 1890), by Bar Hebraeus and Anṭūn Ṣāliḥānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Zubdet-ul Kasas. (Maarif Nazaret, 1897), by Abdurrahman Şeref (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mahomet and his successors : Life of Oliver Goldsmith. Moorish chronicles (Merrill & Baker, 1893), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
The Khalifate agitation in India by a student of history. (Christian Literature Society for India, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musulmans et chrétiens ... (Imprimerie et lithographie centrales, 1874), by Alfred de Caston (page images at HathiTrust)
Tarihin yılan hikayesi (880-03 Istanbul : Cihan Biraderler Matbaasi, 1341 [1922], 1922), by Süleyman Nazif (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of the caliphs (Printed by J.W. Thomas for The Asiatic Society, 1881), by al-Suyūṭī and Henry Sullivan Jarrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Gemäldesaal der Lebensbeschreibungen grosser moslimischer Herrscher der ersten sieben Jahrhunderte der Hidschret. (C. W. Leske, 1976), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tārīkh al-ʻArab (Maṭbaʻat Muḥammad Afindī Muṣṭafá, 1891), by L.-A. Sédillot (page images at HathiTrust)
Le rarità dell'istoria (G. Bernardoni di Giovanni, 1844), by Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim Ibn al-Anbārī and A. Madini (page images at HathiTrust)
"Bijbel en legende" bij den arabischen schrijver Jaʻubi, 9de eeuw na Christus : vertaling en onderzoek naar de bronnen van Ibn-Wādhih qui dicitur al-Jaʻqubī, historiae : pars prior. pp. 1-89. ed. M.Th. Houtsma, 1883 (Brill, 1907), by Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʻqūb Yaʻqūbī and G. Smit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A short history of the Saracens : being a concise account of the rise and decline of the Saracenic power : and of the economic, social, and intellectual development of the Arab nation from the earliest times to the destruction of Bagdad, and the expulion of the Moors from Spain... (Macmillan, 1899), by Syed Ameer Ali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mahomet and his successors (J.R. Anderson, 1849), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
T̤abaḳāt-i-nāsiri a general history of the Muhammadan dynastics of Asia, including Hindustān, from A.H. 194 (810 A.D.) to A.H. 658 (1260 A.D.) and the irruption of the infidel Mughals into Islām (Printed by Gilbert & Rivington, 1881), by Abu ʻUmar Minhāj al-Din ʻUthmān ibn Sirāj al-Dīn and H. G. Raverty (page images at HathiTrust)
Futūḥ al-buldān (880-05 Miṣr : Sharikat Ṭabʻ al-Kutub al-ʻArabīyah, 1319 H. = 1901 M., 1901), by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Balādhurī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tanbīh al-anām ilā tārīkh al-Islām (880-03 Bayrūt : Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat al-Iqbāl, 1332 [H.], [1913? M.], 1913), by Ṣāliḥ Madʹhūn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tuḥfat al-anām, mukhtaṣar tārīkh al-Islām (880-04 Bayrūt : Shuʻbat Maʻārif Bayrūt, 1320 [H.], [1902? M.], 1902), by ʻAbd al-Bāsiṭ ibn ʻAlī Fākhūrī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musulmans et chrétiens : la Turquie en 1873 (Imprimerie et lithographie centrales, 1874), by Alfred de Caston (page images at HathiTrust)
Majmūʻat āthār Rafīq Bik al-ʻAẓm (880-04 Miṣr : Maṭbaʻat al-Manār, 1344 H., [1925? M.], 1925), by Rafīq ʻAẓm and ʻUthmān ʻAẓm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tārīkh duwal al-Islām (880-03 Miṣr : Maṭbaʻat al-Hilāl, 1907-1908., 1907), by Rizq Allāh Manqariyūs Ṣadafī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Futūḥāt al-Islāmīyah baʻda muḍiy al-futūḥāt al-Nabawīyah (880-03 Miṣr : Maṭbaʻat al-Saʻādah, 1330 H., [1911? M.], 1911), by Aḥmad ibn Zaynī Daḥlān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tarjumah-i Kitāb al-Futūḥ (HathiTrust Digital Library, 1882), by Aḥmad Ibn Aʻtham al-Kūfī (page images at HathiTrust)
Düvel-i islâmiye (Milli Matbaa, 1927), by Halil Edhem and Stanley Lane-Poole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb Duwal al-Islām fī al-tārīkh, lil-ḥāfiẓ Shams al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh (Maṭbaʻat Dāʼrat al-Maʻārif al-Niẓāmīyah, 1918), by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Dhahabī and Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sakhāwī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kitāb Qahr al-wujūh al-ʻābisah bi-dhikr nasab al-Jarākisah min Quraysh. (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Bahīyah al-Miṣrīyah, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
Tārīkh al-kāmil (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kubrá al-ʻāmirah, 1873), by 'Izz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, Abu al-Hasan ʻAlī ibn al-Husain Masʻūdī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār ʻUtbī, Muḥibb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Shiḥnah, and Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Qaramānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Raddun rannān ʻalá Nabsh al-hadhayān (al-Maktabah al-Sharqīyah, 1891), by Jirjī Zaydān and Ilyās Ṣāliḥ (page images at HathiTrust)
al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl (Maṭbaʻat al-Saʻādah, 1912), by Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd Dīnawarī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sinīn-i Islām : jismeṉ muḵẖtaṣir ḥāl Islām kī tārīḵẖ aur ʻilm kā īs tashrīḥ ke sāth mundarij hai ... (mat̤bʻ Inḍiyan Pablik Aupīniyan, 1871), by G.W. Leitner (page images at HathiTrust)
İslam tarihi ; İslamda tarih ve müverrihler. (Evkaf-ı İslamiye Matbaası, 1922), by Şemsettin Günaltay and M. Şemseddin Günaltay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The history and conquests of the Saracens. Six lectures delivered before the Edinburgh philosophical institution. (Macmillan and co., 1877), by Edward A. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
The Eclipse of the 'Abbasid caliphate; original chronicles of the fourth Islamic century. (B. Blackwell, 1920), by D. S. Margoliouth and H. F. Amedroz (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronological retrospect, or, Memoirs of the principal events of Mahommedan history, from the death of the Arabian legislator, to the accession of the emperor Akbar, and the establishment of the Moghul empire in Hindustaun. (London : J. Booth, 1821., 1821), by David Price (page images at HathiTrust)
Muslim conquests in North Africa. (London : Christian Literature Society for India, 1914., 1914), by Edward Sell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Futūḥāt al-Islāmīyah baʻda muḍī al-futūḥāt al-Nabawīyah (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Mīrīyah, 1885), by Aḥmad ibn Zaynī Daḥlān (page images at HathiTrust)
Annals of the early Caliphate from the death of Mahomet to the Omeyyad and Abbaside dynasties A.H. XI-LXI (A.D. 632-680) from original sources, by William Muir (Gutenberg ebook)
Invasions des Sarrazins en France: et de France en Savoie, en Piémont et dans la Suisse, pendant les 8e, 9e et 10e siècles de notre ère (in French), by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (Gutenberg ebook)
History of the Moors of Spain, by Florian (Gutenberg ebook)

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