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Alsayyad, Nezar. Cities and Caliphs. Greenwood, 1991. A history of the process by which Middle Eastern cities became Islamic and the role of the caliphs in shaping Islamic cities.

El-Hibri, Tayeb. Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun Al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Recounts the history of the golden age of the medieval Islamic caliphate.

Hawting, Gerald R. The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750. Rev. ed. Routledge, 2000. Good introductory survey of a complex period in Arab and Islamic history.

Johnson-Davies, Denys. Stories of the Caliphs: The Early Rulers of Islam. Hoopoe Books, 1997. An introduction to the early leaders of the Islamic world; for middle school readers.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. Taylor & Francis, 2001. Offers a reassessment of early Islamic conquests directed by the caliphs.

Nicolle, David, and Adam Hook. Armies of the Caliphates, 862-1098. Osprey, 1998. A military history of the Islamic armies--composed of the Arabs, Turks, Persians, North Africans, and others--that were among the preeminent military forces up to the time of the Crusades.

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