All articles are available online through the Library; all books are available in the reserve reading room (not necessarily under the listing for this course, however).
Athamina, Khalil. “Al-Qasas: its emergence, religious origins and its socio-political impact on early Muslim society,” Studia Islamica 76 (1992), 53-74 PIVNICK
Blair, Sheila S. “What is the date of the Dome of the Rock?” in Bayt al-Maqdis: ʿAbd al-Malik’s Jerusalem Volume 1, ed. Julian Raby, Jeremy Johns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 59-87 PEYTON
Bligh-Abramski, Irit, “Evolution Versus Revolution: Umayyad elements in the ʿAbbāsid regime 133/750-320/932, Islam 65 (1988), 226-43 MULLEN
Donner, Fred M. “The Formation of the Islamic State,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 106 (1986), 283-96 MORRISON
Donner, Fred McGraw. “Centralized authority and military autonomy in the early Islamic conquests,” in The Expansion of the Early Islamic State, ed. Fred M. Donner (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) 263-86 SINJORKO
Drory, Rina. “The Abbasid construction of the Jahiliyya: Cultural authority in the making,” Studia Islamica 83 (1996), 33-49 YARDLEY
Elad, Amikam. “Why did ʿAbd al-Malik build the Dome of the Rock? A re-examination of the Muslim sources,” in Bayt al-Maqdis: ʿAbd al-Malik’s Jerusalem Volume 1, ed. Julian Raby, Jeremy Johns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-52 SNELL
El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria. “Muḥammad and Heraclius: a study in legitimacy,” Studia Islamica 89 (1999), 5-21 TEMPLE
Hinds, Martin. “Kufan Political Alignments and Their Background in the Mid-Seventh Century A.D.,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 2 (1971), 346-67 MILLER
Hinds, Martin. “The Murder of the Caliph 'Uthman,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 3 (1972), 450-69 VERNON
Hoyland, Robert. “New documentary texts and the early Islamic state,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 69(2006), 395-416 WILKINSON
Hoyland, Robert. “Writing the biography of the Prophet Muhammad: problems and solutions,” History Compass 5/2 (2007), 581-602 MATHIEU, THIBADEAU
Johns, Jeremy. “Archaeology and the history of early Islam: the first seventy years,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46 (2003), 411-36 ALSAMARAIE
Kennedy, Hugh. “From Polis to Madina: urban change on late antique and early Islamic Syria,” Past and Present 106 (1985) 3-27 JOHANCSIK
Kennedy, Hugh. “The military revolution and the early Islamic state, in Noble ideals and bloody realities: warfare in the middle ages, ed. Niall Christie, Maya Yazigi (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2006) 197-208 MCCOLM
Khoury, Nuha N.N. “The Dome of the Rock, the Kaʿba, and Ghumdan: Arab Myths and Umayyad Monuments,” Muqarnas 10 (1993), 57-65 MAXWELL
Lapidus, Ira M. “The Arab conquests and the formation of Islamic society,” in Studies on the first century of Islamic society, ed. G. H. A. Juynboll (Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 49-72 LAING
Lapidus, Ira M. “The separation of state and religion in the development of early Islamic society,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 6 (1975), 363-85 COMPAGNA
Mottahedeh, Roy P. “The Shuʾūbīyah controversy and the social history of early Islamic Iran,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (1976), 161-82 CHAUDHRY
Newby, Gordon D. “Imitating Muhammad in two genres: Mimesis and problems of genre in Sīrah and Sunnah,” Medieval Encounters 3 (1997), 266-83 KENNEDY
Rabbat, Nasser. “The meaning of the Dome of the Rock,” Muqarnas 6 (1989), 12-21 GRASSI
Sizgorich, Thomas. “’Do prophets come with a sword?’ Conquest, empire and historical narrative in the early Islamic world,” American Historical Review 112 (2007) 993-1015 BOECHLER
Sizgorich, Thomas. “Narrative and Community in Islamic Late Antiquity,” Past and Present 185 (2004), 9-42 BLACK
Stillman, Norman A. “Charity and social service in medieval Islam,” I The Development of Islamic Ritual, ed. Gerald Hawting (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 211-21 HULL
Wendell, Charles. “Baghdad: Imago Mundi, and Other Foundation-Lore,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 2 (1971), 99-128 GRAEFIN VON PLATEN HALLER