Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography

Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize

Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri''s Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands). Written in Arabic by a ninth-century Muslim scholar working at the court of the ''Abbasid caliphs, the Futuh''s...