Dr. Khalid A. Y. Blankinship
Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA BA 1973 History
American U. in Cairo Cairo, Egypt MA 1975
Cairo University Cairo, Egypt MA 1983 Islamic History
Univ. of Washington Seattle, WA PhD 1988 History
Current Research
Muslim religious and political history; the influence of rhetoric on the interpretation of the Qur’ân and its translation into English; Muslim law, especially the in the school of Mâlik
Publications:
Books
The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishâm ibn ‘Abd al-Malik (724-743 CE) and the Collapse of the Umayyads, Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
The History of al-Tabarî, Vol. XI, The Challenge to the Empires: A.D. 633-635/A.H. 12-13, a translation including introduction, commentary, and notes. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
The History of al-Tabarî, Vol. XXV, The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishâm A.D. 724- 738/A.H. 105-120, a translation including introduction, commentary, and notes, Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
Articles
"Politics, Law, and the Military." In World Eras, Vol. 2, Rise and Spread of Islam, 622-1500, ed. by Susan L. Douglass. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc., for Manly, Inc., 2002, pp. 195-240.
"The Arts." Co-authored with Manar Darwish. In World Eras, Vol. 2, Rise and Spread of Islam, 622-1500, ed. by Susan L. Douglass. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc., for Manly, Inc., 2002, pp. 81-136.
"Imârah, Khilâfah, and Imâmah: The Origins of the Succession to the Prophet Muhammad." In Shî‘ite Heritage: Essays on Classical and Modern Traditions. Ed. by L. Clarke. Binghamton: Global Publications, 2001, pp. 19-43.
"Islam and World History: Towards a New Periodization," The American Journal of Islamic Social Science, 8 (1991), 423-452. Translated into Arabic and republished as "al-Islâm wa-al-ta’rîkh al-‘âlamî: nahw taqsîm jadîd li-al-‘usûr al-ta’rîkhiyyah," in Islâmiyyat al- ma‘rifah, 1 (1416/1995), No. 1, 95-132.
"The Tribal Factor in the ‘Abbâsid Revolution: an Analysis of the Betrayal of the Imam Ibrâhîm b. Muhammad," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 108 (1988), 589-603.