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.
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